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PEEFACE.

This book deals with facts, and the critic will be
forced to acknowledge that the truth, and nothing
but the truth, is revealed in every page.

This expose is not half as severe as the subject
treated of demands. Still, enough is told to bring
to light the hidden venom and baneful influence of
a race deemed by many ee inoffensive. 93

To La France Juive of Edward Drumont, a duo-
decimo in two volumes, containing together more
than one thousand pages, the author gratefully ac-
knowledges his obligations for assistance derived in
the preparation of this book. La France Juive. how-
ever, is not a safe snide for the average reader.
Every statement of Drumont has been carefully an-
alyzed, examined, and fully verified before it was ac-
cepted by the author for publication in this volume.

Although Drumonrs books have found readers by
the thousand, and his La France Juive, in a short
space of time, ran through one hundred and twenty-
six editions, it must be confessed that the French
writer is too often carried away by his prejudices,
while his attacks on Americans, and on Free-IvTasons,
and on Protestantism are not only unwarranted, but
puerile and spiteful in the extreme,

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PREFACE.

The author again asserts that everything brought
forward in this book, however startling it may seem,
is nevertheless a fact. His whole aim has been to
present the truth in all matters pertaining to this
malignant and diabolical race, that has obtained so
strong a foothold in our country.

THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS ;

OR,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, CUSTOMS AXD HABITS

OF THE JEWS,

It must not be supposed that the Jews as a class are
an intelligent race. Assurance is often mistaken for in-
telligence. I admit that there have been eminent men
among the Jews, as, for instance, their renowned law-
giver and leader in ancient times, Moses. But a care-
ful examination of this anomaly (it is not an excep-
tion) will show that the great men among the Jews
have drunk copious draughts of Aryan civilization,
and have quickly either renounced Judaism or adopted
a nominal, sometimes a real, Christianity. Thus their
famous men — Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Borne, Ed-
ward Gans, Moses Mendelssohn, Disraeli, and Johann
N eander — cannot be fairly called Jews : for either they
became rank infidels, or they carefully tried to conceal
their origin by a change of name, a practice followed
to the present day.

"What a difference between the Aryan and the Jew !
The one^ is the child of light, the other of darkness.
See how the Aryan raises his head and looks toward

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the sky ; while the J ew constantly looks on the ground,
always thinking, always meditating, always contriving,
always plotting, plotting, plotting. By the term Ar-
yan we designate the superior family of the white race.
The word is akin to a Greek word meaning best or
noblest, which enters into the formation of many Ens:-

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Est* words, as, for instance, aristocrat, etc.

"Nobody," says Littre. "can denv to the Romans

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their Aryan character," Modern erudition recognizes
the common parentage of the Latin and the Greek
with the Persian and the Sanskrit, and has drawn to-
gether all these scattered brothers into one and the
same fold. There is, therefore, a brotherhood exist-
ing among all the superior white nations. A misfor-
tune to the one, like an electric shock, reaches the
heart of all. Tiiese different nations of Aryan origin
fraternize easily with one another, amalgamate, and in
time become one, and to such an extent that it is dif-
ficult when so amalgamated to separate or to distin-
guish them. The Jew alone, ever since his first ap-
pearance upon the earth, has remained separate and
distinct, and will to the end remain an alien in the
great family of nations.

No race of men excepting, perhaps the negroes, have
a physiognomy so characteristic ; no race has preserved
mere faithfully the original type. "It is our own
ideas," says Edward Brumont, " which are in the way

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of our thoroughly understanding the Jew, and clearly
depicting him — ideas due mainly to the atmosphere in
which we live, an atmosphere absolutely distinct from
that breathed by the Jew."

CUSTOMS A2W HABITS OF THE JEWS, 3

u The Jew is a coward " is a common expression.
Eighteen centuries of persecution supported with in-
credible endurance testify that if the Jew lacks com-
bativeness, he has that other form of courage called
persistence.

Can we seriously treat as cowards people who have
suffered everything rather than renounce their faith ?

" The Jew is a worshiper of money." This affirma-
tion is rather a declamatory phrase than a thoughtful
or serious utterance.

How often do we see men and women with time-
honored names offer their greetings to a Seligman, an
Qppenheimer, or a Kothschild, everyone of whom re-
gards Christ, whom the Christians adore, as the great-
est of impostors. What prompts them to do this ?
Has the Jew who attracts them superior intelligence ?
Is he an incomparable entertainer ? Has he rendered
service to the Government ? By no means. He is an
alien, a German or a Pole, a Jew in faith, little given
to conversation, a vain fellow, who often repays the
hospitality that he gives to his guest with vulgarities ;
a hospitality that he extends only through vanity and
ostentation.

What motive brings together these eminent men ?
The love of money. Why do they go there ? To
kneel before the golden calf.

66 Would you know what is the voice of the blood,"
said to one of his friends a French duke, who, despite
the tears of his mother,- had married a Kothschild of
Frankfort, " See ! " He called his little boy, took out a
louis from his pocket, and showed it to him. The

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eyes of the child almost started from their sockets.
It was the Semitic instinct manifesting itself.

It has already been stated that nearly all Christian
nations are linked together by the closest ties by reason
of their common descent from the Aryan race, which
has giyen to the world its greatest civilizations.

Sidon, Carthage and Tyre no doubt attained, in
times gone by, a high degree of commercial prosperity.
Tradition has it that the Hebrews had connections
with certain of the old, half -Arab inhabitants of the
Sinaitic peninsula, and the Arabian Empire in ancient
times attained a passing splendor. But this epheme-
ral prosperity in no wise resembled the fertile and en-
during civilization of Greece or Eome, or even the
Christian society of the middle ages.

The Aryan alone possesses the idea of justice, the
sentiment of liberty, the conception of the beautiful.

Gellion-Danglar in his admirable work, Les Sem-
ites et le Semitisme, says : " The Semitic civilizations,
however brilliant they may appear, are only vain
images, more or less vulgar parodies, paper edifices,
which certain people have the complacency to display
as enduring works made of marble and bronze. The
bizarre, the monstrous hold in it the place of the
beautiful; while profusion and ostentation have ban-
ished from art both taste and decency."

From the earliest times we find the Aryan in con-
flict with the Jew. Troas was a city peopled by Jews,
and the conflict between the two races explains the
peculiar vibration emanating from the Trojan War.
Louis Benloew says " Paris was one of those ambula-

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tory Jews who wandered about the coast of Greece.
Not content with carrying off the beautiful Helen,
which an Aryan might have done in the blindness of
passion, he also carried away the treasures of his host.
Herodotus, the historian, describes him as haying been
forced by a tempest to land in Egypt, and being de-
nounced to Pharaoh not only for having dishonored
the host who had welcomed him, but also for having
stolen his treasures, was ordered by the Egyptian
king immediately to depart from his dominion, for
Pharaoh was unwilling to violate the laws of hospital-
ity which Paris had so little respected."

From the earliest dawn of history the dream of the
Semite, in fact his fixed thought and purpose, has been
to reduce the Aryan to servitude, to put him to the
severest straits. He sought to reach that point by
war. Hannibal, who pitched his camp under the
walls of Rome, well-nigh succeeded. But the ruins
of Carthage and the bleaching bones of the Saracens
record the lesson given to these presumptuous devils.

Judaism, however, is still confident of success.
But it is no longer the Carthaginian or the Saracen
who conducts the movement. It is the Jew of to-day
who has replaced violence with treachery and fraud.
Silent, progressive, serpent-like, slow encroachment
has succeeded the boisterous invasion of old. No
more armed hordes announce their arrival with cries,
but separate companies wind their way slowly, group
by group, and take possession without noise, of all
places, of all functions of a country, from the lowest
to the highest.

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In the environs of Wilna, that hot-bed of Juda-
ism, has been organized many an exodus which has
brought misfortune to Germany. France and England,
and now threatens to do likewise in the United States.

Previously to the year 1825 there were hardlv anv
Jews in America, To-day the Jewish societies in2\ew
York city alone own real estate valued at nearly thirty
million dollars. There are now more than nine hundred
thousand Israelites in the United Stares. Let the
reader stroll down Broadway, or down any of the lead-
ing streets of New York city, and he will find Jewish
names plenty as the locusts of Egypt. By far the
greater number of these Jews come from TVilna. and
these Wilna Jews during the Franco-Eussian "War as-
sassinated the wounded French soldiers lying upon the
field of battle. Thiers relates this episode in his
Histoire du Oonsulat et dc J 'Empire. u Horrible thing
to be told/"' he says, "the miserable Polish Jews, as
soon as they saw the enemy in retreat, began to throw
our wounded soldiers out of the windows, and some-
times even to strangle them, thus getting rid of them,
after having despoiled them of everything. A sad
homage offered to the Russians, the partisans of whom
they were."

The Jew is a born trafficker, a born liar, full of
cunning and intrigue. The Aryan is enthusiastic,
heroic, chivalrous, frank and confident. The Jew sees
nothing beyond the present. The Aryan is the child
of Heaven, constantly preoccupied with superior as-
pirations. The one lives in the real, the other in the
ideal.

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The Jew is mercenary by instinct. He has the bent
for everything pertaining to business, for everything
that gives him the opportunity to cheat his fellow men.
The Aryan is agriculturist, poet, and, above all, a
soldier. War is his element. He goes merrily to face
danger, and he despises death.

The Jew has no creative faculty. On the other
hand, the Aryan invents. Xot one invention ever
was made by a Jew. There is not a word of truth in
the stereotyped phrase that the Jews invented the
letter of credit. The letter of credit, the check,
was in use in Athens four centuries before the Chris-
tian era. In Isocrates this fact is plainly told. The
Aryan organizes, creates, while the Jew derives all the
resulting advantages, which he naturally keeps for
himself. The Aryan undertakes voyages of adven-
ture and discovers unknown regions. The Jew waits
until all has been explored, until the country has
been opened, to enrich himself at the expense of
others. In a word— everything pertaining to daring
deeds, everything tending to enlarge the terrestrial
domain is absolutely beyond the Jew. He can exist
only in the midst of a civilization he has not created.
The Aryan is hail, fellow, well met. He is happy,
provided one relates to him one of those legends
for which his imagination longs, being wholly en-
wrapped in the marvelous. What pleases him is not
one of those Semitic adventures contained in the
Thousand and One Nights, in which singers discover
untold treasures, and fishermen cast their nets in
the sea and draw them out full of diamonds. To

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move the Aryan there should be heroic deeds full of
devotion, a hero who scorns danger, like Gilbert de
Koussilon, for instance, who, after haying refused to
wed the daughter of a Sultan, pierced five thousand
miscreants with a single blow of his unerring lance.

However perspicacious the intelligence of the Jew
may appear, it is in reality limited. He has neither
the faculty to foresee events, nor of looking beyond
his hooked nose ; nor the gift of understanding deli-
cate shades of thought and character, for which the
Aryan exposes his life without regret.

Kenan has thus described many of these points :
"The Semitic race is recognized in a unique manner
by negative characters. It has neither mythology nor
epopee, neither science nor philosophy, neither fiction,
plastic arts nor civil life ; in a word, absence of com-
plexity of shade — exclusive sentiment of unity — is its
characteristic. Morality itself has always been under-
stood by that race in a manner different from ours.
The Jew recognizes duties peculiar to himself. To carry
out his vengeance, avenge that which he believes to be
his right, is, with him, a sort of obligation. On the
other hand, to ask him to keep his word, render justice
in a disinterested manner, is to ask him to do the im-
possible. There is nothing that takes the place in
these passionate souls of the indomitable sentiment of
/. Besides, religion is, with the Jew, a sort of special
duty which has but a distant tie with every-day
morality."

Elsewhere he adds: "The spirit of the Jew lacks
breadth and delicacy. Interest is never banished from

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his morality. The ideal woman,, depicted in the Book
of Proverbs, is an economical housekeeper, profitable
to her husband, but, withal, of a very limited moral-
ity. Jewish poetry offers scarcely a page embellished
with the charm of sentimentality. Love enters into it
only in the form of a lascivious and burning voluptu-
ousness."

Gustave Tridon, in his book Le Molachisme
Juif, calls the Jew, "The stain in the picture of
civilization, the bad genius of the earth. His gifts
are pests. To fight the Semitic ideas is the duty of
the Aryan race. 93

Eenan wrote the above before the unheard-of suc-
cesses of Judaism during recent years. Nothing is
more curious than to study the manner with which
Eenan, so wonderfully endowed in a scholarly point
of view, yet so low in respect to character, kneels be-
fore his victors. Eenan. after having asserted that
the supposed services rendered to civilization by the
Jews amount to nothing, suddenly declares, in a
lecture delivered before the Society for the Promotion
of Jewish Studies, that the Jews are our benefactors.
Bat Alphonse de Rothschild presided over the society,
which fact explains the lies uttered by Eenan. The
Jew banker smiled on the orator prostrated before
him, with a smile at once patronizing and scornful.
" "What a valet ! 33 he seems to say ; "what a miser-
able fellow." TTe, on our part, would say, how much
he is to be pitied. You, both great and small : you,
who defend as well as you can the victim of Calvary,
the God whom your fathers have prayed to, do you

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not feel a thousand times happier than this apostate,
who kisses the hand of the executioner of Christ for a
handful of gold thrown at him with disgust ? Do
yon not believe that the poor missionary, who offers
his prayer before a piece of bread, has a more tranquil
soul than this rich academician of princely income,
and friend of the Rothschilds ?

The Jews yearn for whatever flatters their vanity.
They seek with grotesque eagerness military titles,
titles of baron and count, which look as well on those
manipulators of money as the hat of a woman upon
a monkey. " There is no trickster," says Edward
Drummont, "no matter of how low degree, no
dealer in cast-off clothing, no special partner in a
pawn-shop, who is not a member of the Legion of
Honor. "

The right of the Jew to oppress others is a part of
his religion. It is for him an article of faith. It is
repeated in every line of the Bible and the Talmud.

" Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. "
(Psalm, ii.)

All means are good, provided they are directed
against the Christian — the Goy (singular Goy, plural
Goym. )

" One can and must kill the best of the Goym."

"The money of the Goym belongs to the Jews.
Hence it is permitted to rob and deceive them."

The social evolution itself of the Jew is absolutely
different from ours. The type of the Aryan family
in the state of civilization is that of the Roman ge?is,

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which gave rise to the feudal family. Daring many
generations the vital force and the genius are, so to
speak, limited, but at once, and unexpectedly, there
appears an illustrious representative who has the sum
total of the qualities of his manly race. This predes-
tined being often takes a century to make his appear-
ance, but from the lowest extraction there sometimes
rises one of those complete figures at once charm-
ing and valorous, heroic and lettered, just and great,
such as are to be met with so often in the pages of
history.

In the Semitic race things occur differently. In
the East a cam el -driver, a water-carrier, a barber, is
often raised to the highest honors by a whim of the
sovereign. He suddenly becomes a pasha, a vizier, a
confidant of the prince, like Mustapha-ben-Ismael,
who introduced himself to the bardo by selling small
cakes, and who, according to the suggestive expres-
sion of M. Dauphin, "rendered to his master services
both day and night/'

The s&me case applies to the Jew. Beyond the sa-
cerdotal families, which constitute a veritable nobility,
distinction of rank does not exist. There are no illus-
trious families among the Jews. Glory is never left
as a legacy. In less than twenty years, if circum-
stances are favorable, the Jew attains his full develop-
ment. He is born in the bosom of a Judengasse,
earns a little money in a successful operation, gravi-
tates into a great city, buys the title of baron, and
assumes the manners of one who has always been
reared in velvet. The transition is instantaneous. He

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experiences no astonishment, lie ignores all the delica-
cies of modesty.

Take a Russian Jew, as he is in his native place,
clad in dirty garments that beggar description, wear-
ing ear-rings long as a corkscrew, and after a month
of baths he will install himself in a box at the opera
with the aplomb of a Seligman or a Wormser.

We know, here in the United States, of two Jew
brothers, who in Germany were itinerant Tenders of
notions, and who, from tillage to village, their pack on
their shoulders, sold cheap wares. They made a little
money, came to New York, engaged a gentleman to
write a book in German for them, the elder put his
name on it as the author, opened a school, gave to
himself the title of professor, engaged two or three
teachers of foreign languages, had them write as many
books in their native tongue, repeated the same ef-
frontery as in the case of the German work, except
that now he appeared as co-author, and to-day the ig-
norant suspender dealers of Germany enrich them-
selves by selling at a high price their assurance to the
easily-gulled Americans.

On the other hand an honest Gentile of the middle,
or even of the lowest class, who has enriched himself
in an honorable way, will always have an embarrassed
air and will avoid the elegant centers of society. His
son, reared in the midst of better conditions, will with
greater ease of manner enter the refined circles of the
world. The grandchild will, in the course of time, if
the family continue to live in easy circumstances, live
honestly, and in the true Christian spirit represent the

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picture of the true gentleman so common in our
American society. He Trill be endowed with a deli-
cacy of thought and a refinement of sentiment that
the Jew never possesses.

If the Jew suddenly reaches the extreme of assur-
ance, he never attains distinction. Excepting in the
case of a few Portuguese Jews who in youth have
beautiful and expressive eyes, and in old age a certain
Oriental majesty, one can never find among the Jews
that indescribable calm, courtesy, and dignity which
distinguish the American, the Englishman, the French-
man or any other Christian gentleman, though clothed
in threadbare garments.

The Jew is insolent, never proud. He never gets
beyond what is termed " cheek. " The Eothsclnlds,
and others of the same class, notwithstanding their
millions, appear little better than dealers in cast-off
clothing. Their women with all their diamonds al-
ways look like venders of toilet articles, clothed in
gaudy garments. Equality, the first condition of so-
cial intercourse, is lacking among the Jews. The
Jew — let this remark be well kept in mind — will never
be the equal of the Gentile. He either cringes before
you or seeks to crush you. He is either above you or
below you, never your equal.

Let the reader only refresh his memory^ and he will
acknowledge that even in a few minutes' conversation
this phenomenon clearly manifests itself. As soon
as you enter into conversation with a Jew at all famil-
iarly he will seek to overwhelm you. It is necessary
continually to remind him who you are and what he is,

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The monotony of type is the striking peculiarity of
the Jewish race. The Jew lacks that refined culture,
that sparkling cleverness which is the very salt of con-
versation. One rarely meets with those piquant ob-
servations and witty remarks which many a conversa-
tionalist sows by hazard in the intimacy of the social
circle. Were the Jew equipped with these advantages,
he would turn them to his own pecuniary profit.

The Jew is a monochord, and the longest conversa-
tion offers no surprise to him.

It is necessary to become acquainted with the native,
the Oriental Jew, in order to understand fully the
Jew of civilization. The Presbnrg Jew, particularly,
gives an idea of the intermediate state between the
sordid Jew of Galicia and the opulent Jew of the
capitals.

Picture to yourself a road that creeps up dry,
dusty, almost whitish. To the right and left are
small, dingy little shops, or small houses like those in
the Orient, furnished with bars not unlike those in the
middle ages. In the public highway exists pell-mell —
in the midst of dirt of all kinds, bits of iron, broken
pieces of odds and ends, heaps of garbage — a population
of seven to eight thousand Jews. Yonder swelter the
old men, remarkable for their ugly features, and by
their side lie young girls of wondrous beauty, clothed
in tatters. The long coat dominates among men, who
mark the present by the greasy tall hat they wear, and
recall the past with their dirty feet, which are always
bare, and with their never-combed hair. One seems
everywhere to recognize faces of familiar acquaint-

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ances, and this corner of the Ghetto has the air of a
little Paris or New York. Those two dirty Jews yon-
der, revolting in their general aspect, do they not re-
semble Dreyfus, Lockroy, or better still, are they not
the striking picture of many well-known Jews here in
New York ? Notice this young bony girl who walks
bare-footed, dressed in a dirty camisole and a skirt
that reaches to her knees. Is she not the very type of
Sarah Bernhardt when a child ? In fine, put on dia-
monds, new garments, on all these peojxle, on all these
dealers in second-hand articles, receivers of stolen
goods, keepers of pawn-shops, moneylenders on wages,
and you will have the upper class of the New York
Jews.

These Jews, however, are not in the least dissatisfied
with their condition, for they wait patiently for the
time of full tide which will carry them into a city, and
shortly afterward to fortune.

At the end of the hill one finds himself before the
castle of Schlossberg, the four walls of which alone re-
main standing, but where once were crowned the
kings of Hungary. This castle stands like a motion-
less giant with a strange relief looking at space. At
its feet slowly flows the Danube, sleepy and morose,
and seeming to oppose itself with a dogged resistance
to the steamboats that with difficulty ply their way up
the stream. To the left lies the island of An, with its
small country seats. At your feet stretch banks of
sand, and in the far distance are to be seen large
islands called "The Garden of Gold/' This spot, once
the seat of royalty, has to-day a profoundly melancholy

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aspect. The feudal world, with all its glories, its he-
roic recollections, its triumphant pomp, is in rains, like
yonder deserted castle. The new world moves and
agitates itself a few steps distant in yonder Jewish col-
ony, from which will rise, until the hour of Christian
regeneration strikes, the Jew millionaires, worshiped
by a servile society, the Jew traders who delight in
glaring advertisements, in fact, all those who, with
Jewish effrontery, pose before an imbecile and easily
gulled public.

One must not judge of the artistic or literary ability
of the Jews by what they publish to-day. The Jew is
incapable of rising above a very limited height. They
have no men of genius to compare with Dante,
Shakespeare, Bossuet, Victor Hugo, Emerson, Long-
fellow, JSfewton. The man of genius is a superior be-'
ing, ready to sacrifice himself for the good of human-
ity. It is the nature of the Jew to sacrifice nothing
at all. Their Shakespeare is Adolph D'Ennery, and
their Kaphael is Worms. What more striking example
of the utter lack of creative power among the Semitic
races could we have than in Carthage, which, though
she was for a time mistress of the world, has not left
behind a single work of art ? The excavations made
there have brought to light only a few insignificant
objects, while the humblest town of Greece yields
every day new treasures. There was more art in the
homeliest water-pot made by an artisan of Tanagraor
of Bceotia than in the whole of Carthage. In Perrot's
and Chipiez's History of the Art of Antiquity we are
told : " The Phoenicians knew how, by cunning or force,

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF TEE JEWS. 17

to snatch away everything not sold to them. They
were slave-traders, and used every means that enabled
them to rob or to carry off beautiful girls or young
boys. Nobody was able to cope with them, and all
feared and detested them."

In art the Jews have created nothing original,
powerful, or touching. They produce only low, vul-
gar works. They busy themselves with what enables
them to make ••'moneys;" with what flatters the
vulgar appetites of the multitude ; with what satis-
fies their Jewish venom and hatred. They often ac-
complish this by turning into ridicule the pious recol-
lections, heroic deeds, august traditions of the Chris-
tians, at whose expense they live.

"Note well," says Edward Drumont, "the manner
in which the Jew carries out his work. If called upon
to ridicule the army at a time when a terrible war is
about to break forth, the Jew, Ludovic Halevy, pro-
duces the disgraceful composition known as the Gen-
eral Bourn. If heroism, honest love, or any immortal
masterpiece is to be ridiculed, the Jew, Offenbach, is
at hand. Is it necessary to hold up to scorn the works
of Shakespeare, of Eacine, or of Moliere ? the Jew,
Busnach, is ready to perform the task. In a word, the
J ew corrupts everything that exists. The innocent and
mirth-provoking old French dance, the tonne enfant,
is turned by the Jew into the ignoble can-can. Prom
the light, airy, joyous songs of old he constructs those
obscene, rude, and lascivious airs that disgrace the
stage. The quick, aggressive, and, at times, cutting
journalism of old he has converted into blackmail.

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From the attractive and occasionally decolletee photo-
graphs of the eighteenth century he develops the most
obscene pictures to be thought of. From the inno-
cent and amusing caricatures of Daumier he makes
the infamous, impure pictures of Strauss, a worthy
parent of the musician of the same name.

"The dancing halls, where the youth of by-gone
days amused themselves in an honest way, have degen-
erated into a place of prostitution, thanks to the
Jew Markowski, and the androgynous Wolff. Thus
while these low creatures commit these infamous acts
in France and elsewhere, they have the effrontery to
screen themselves by declaring, 6 Behold how low
France has fallen ! Behold her literature ! Behold
what she is producing !?"

"When have the ancestors of these men prayed with
our own ? In what Corner of the village or of the city
are their family tombs ? In what parish registry does
one find the names of these new-comers, who, less than
a century ago, had not the right to live upon the earth
from which they now seek to drive us away ? By
what tie do they attach themselves to the traditions of
our race ?

The Jew acquires easily the slang of a language, but
never its purity and finish. In order to speak a lan-
guage one must first of all think in the language.
There is, between the expression and the thought, the
closest connection. One must not expect a Jew to
naturalize his style as he does his person. One must
have sucked, at one's own birth, of the native bever-
age, have truly arisen from the native soil. Then one

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can defend, like Henry Clay or Daniel "Webster ; write
like Hawthorne or Shakespeare, who hated and de-
spised the Jew ; attack like Voltaire ; defend like
Choate. As I am writing the above, I recall the ac-
count given by the Rabbi Benjamin de Tudele, who,
while visiting Greece during the middle ages, met a
horde of Jews encamped upon Mount Parnassus.
"What a lamentable spectacle ! Bands of these servile,
circumcised dogs, whom Aristophanes so despised, in-
stalled among those laurels where, during the glorious
times of Hellas, the God with the Silver Bow guided
the sacred choir of the sister muses.

This inability to acquire a foreign language extends
even to its pronunciation. The Jew who so easily
speaks slang always retains a guttural sound that never
fails to manifest itself. Eichard Andree has affirmed
this fact in his book entitled Interesting Observations
Respecting the Jews. "Most of the Jews," he
says, "even the educated, have a peculiar accent that
causes them easily to be recognized. It is a mark of
race common among the Jews of all nations."

The Jew, being thus incapable of entering into the
domains of creative art, has also failed to penetrate
into the unexplored regions of science. He sells eye-
glasses and telescopes, but never discovers new stars
in the immensity of the heavens, like Leverrier. He
does not discover a new continent, like Columbus;
he does not divine the laws of attraction, like JNfew-
ton. The claim of the Jews, that they kept the depot
of science during the middle ages and transmitted to
us the discoveries of the Arabs, is not true. The

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Jews have made themselves appear learned by picking
up some crumbs from the books of Aristotle. They
have simply played the role of the ass in the fable,
who put on the skin of a dead lion. During centuries
they have monopolized the profession of medicine,
which rendered espionage easy by permitting them to
enter everywhere, but never for a minute did they
think of the circulation of the blood. The Jew doctors
of that period were a thousand times more ignorant
in a scientific point of view than their cotemporaries.
They believed that the heavens were solid ; that the
firmament was pierced with holes from which rain fell.
They formulated axioms of this sort : " A little wine
and bread taken on an empty stomach preserves the
liver from sixty maladies " It is a sure sign of too
much blood when one dreams of a cock."

It is to the Aryan that we owe all discoveries, both
great and small. It is to him that is due the art of
printing, the discovery of gunpowder, of America, of
steam, of electricity, of the circulation of the blood,
of the laws of attraction. All progress has been
evolved from the natural development of Christian civ-
ilization. The Jew, one must never weary of repeat-
ing it, only exploits that which Christian genius and
work have achieved.

The true emblem of the Jew is that hideous
bird that installs itself in the nest constructed by
another. We know a Jew abroad whose life would
make an interesting subject for a novel. A few years
ago he gave himself the title of general, and re-
cently posed before the world as an archaeologist.

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS.

21

He palmed off upon a board of mummified directors a
large number of objects, many of them of more than
doubtful authenticity, and pocketed for his worthless
collection a princely fortune.

Haying indicated th'e principal traits common to all
Jews, let us now examine more closely the race and
the species. The principal signs by which the Jews
can be recognized are the following:

The famous hooked nose, the restless eyes, the close-
set teeth, the elongated ears, the square nails (instead
of being tapered in the shape of an almond), the fiat
foot, the round knees, the soft hand, almost melting
with the hypocrisy of the traitor. Often they have
one arm longer than the other. Lavater observes:
" Physical degradation closely follows upon moral deg-
radation. This is strongly remarked among the Jews,
who, of all races of men, are the most depraved."

The Jewish tribes have preserved to this day almost
intact the features that formerly distinguished them,
a number of which are indicated in the Bible. G-am-
betta, with his nose of so pronounced a curve, belonged
to the tribe of Ephraim. To the same tribe belong
the Seligmans, the Oppenheimers and the Wormsers,
which accounts for the mutual sympathy existing
among them. The Stearns, who with few exceptions
are of a dark and velvet-like skin, belong to the tribe
of Dantet The Jacobs as a rule belong to the tribe
of Judah. The numberless Levys, notwithstanding-
slight differences of type, belong to the tribe of Asser.

Besides these tribal peculiarities, it is absolutely nec-
essary to distinguish two different types of J ews, the

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Jew of the South and the Jew of the North, the Por-
tuguese Jew and the German Jew.

The Jews of the Portuguese rite' claim to have
settled in Spain during the earliest antiquity. They
reject with horror all kinds of relation " with the
murderers of Christ." They even claim that the
Jews living in Toledo had, at the time of the Cruci-
fixion, written to their brethren in Jerusalem to de-
ter them from committing so great a sin. Whether
these claims are correct or not, it is an indisputable
fact that there exists a great difference between the
Portuguese and the German Jew.

Warmed by the sun of the Orient, the Jew of the
South is at times physically beautiful. It is not rare
to find in him preserved the Arab type in all its pu-
rity. A few recall, with their mild, velvet-like, caress-
ing eyes, their ebon hair, s'ome comparison of the
Moorish kings or of a Castilian Hidalgo. They are
obliged, however, to keep their hands gloved, for this
greedy, avaricious, low race quickly manifests itself by
the curved fingers, which are ever restless, ever ready
to seize or to rob.

The German* Jews have none of the above personal
advantages. Their weak, glassy eyes seldom look you
straight in the face. Their skin is yellowish, and their
hair often of the same disagreeable color. Their beard,
almost always of a reddish hue, is now and then
black, but of a faded black which recalls an old Prince
Albert coat. He is the type of the old slave-trader,
of the lowest kind of usurer. Good fortune never
changes him while touching him with its wand.

CUSTOMS AXD HABITS OF THE JEWS. 23

TVhen one sees- him driving in his magnificent carriage,
one is reminded of itinerant venders in thread and
needles, and of money-lenders of the Shylock kind.
In a word, the German Jew is a vain, ignorant, tricky,
ungrateful, low, creeping, insolent, dirty, ill-smelling
fellow. The German Jewess is imperious, credulous,
prone to blackmail, and seldom faithful to her conju-
gal ties.

The above description is given by one of their co-
religionists, Mr. Cerfbeer de Medelsheim. The same
author brings against the rabbis accusations that we do
not reproduce, because never does a Christian writer
attack a priest, no matter to what religion he may be-
long. He leaves this task to the writers of the Jewish
press.

The Jew of the South mingles a grain of poetry
with his financial enterprises. He takes away your
purse — it is the race that demands it — but he does it
by means of certain proceedings not wanting in a
sentiment of grandeur.

The Jew of the Xorth has not even the genius of
commerce. He is the one who rubs off the metal
from gold pieces, who, as it is said in Frankfort,
causes gold coins to suffer the operation of circum-
cision. His brother of the South works, moves, ex-
erts himself. He of the K"orth does not stir, but be-
hind his window, motionless and stagnant, waits for
success to come to him. He enriches himself though
he never produces. The one is the quick, restless,
alert water-bug ; the other, the indolent, lazy parasite,
living in inertia, at the expense of the human body.

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THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

In a word, the Jew who can be tolerated is the man
of the South. But the venomous being — he who
makes obscene caricatures, he who spits upon the
crucifix — is the Jew of the North. The Jews of
the South have suffered much more than those of
the North, but they haye been much less despised.
Martyrdom, as it often happens, has aggrandized,
as it were, their descendants ; while the habit of liv-
ing in public humiliation has plunged into degrada-
tion the sons of the German Jews. It must not be
forgotten, however, that the true Jew is the Jew of
the North.

But, excepting a few passing dissensions, both those
of the North and the South are closely united against
the Goy, the stranger, the Christian.

In 1865, at the time when it was proposed to unite
the two rites, a pamphlet appeared, written by a
Jew and addressed to the committee that had in
charge the proposed fusion of the two sects, couched
in the following terms : u Can the divinity of Jesus
Christ resist the light of our epoch ? If that divin-
ity is to conserve its prestige, if the unity of God,
the divinity of Jesus, the holy Trinity, and the ador-
ation of the Virgin are still to continue, without
human intellect being offended ; if the hour for which
we have been so long waiting has not yet arrived, let
us be on our guard. Let us be patient, resigned, and
let us remit intact the worship of our fathers to the
generation that shall have the glory of causing the
just, religious idea of the only God to triumph.55

Keligion among the Jews is but of secondary im-

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS.

25

portance. The question of race is what, above all,
preoccupies them. Even among those who haye aban-
doned Judaism, a Jew has no difficulty in recognizing
his own people. He knows if there is a drop of Jew-
ish blood in one's veins, and very readily spares an
antagonist because he has discovered in him a brother
who has wandered from the way.

The above point is admirably shown in Daniel
Deronda, that marvelous study of Judaism. From
one end of the universe to the other Israel sends its
emissaries to discover the fragments of the lost tribes,
among which Gad and loadde have completely
disappeared. They are sought with eagerness, per-
severance and patience, because as long as they are
dispersed the family is not complete.

It was in order to find these lost tribes that the Jew
Benjamin, who died in London in 1864, visited during
many long years Egypt, Syria, Bagdad, India, China
and Persia. Another Jew, Wiener, professor at the
"Lycee Bonaparte," went to look for them in South
America, and the funds of public instruction were used
to defray the expenses of those patriotic missions. It
is for this same purpose that Disraeli made England
undertake, under the false pretext of an offense to Eng-
land, the war of Afghanistan, which cost the lives of
so many men and the expenditure of an enormous
amount of money. Mr. Gladstone, in the great meet-
ing held on the 8th of October, 1881, in Leeds, de-
nounced that disastrous expedition, which resulted in
alienating the Afghans from the English, and in over- •
throwing the moral barrier existing between England

26 THE ORIGINAL ME. JACOBS.

and the Russian Empire. The events of 1885, when
England backed down before Kussia, prove how clearly
Gladstone saw the whole matter.

The main body of the Jews is divided, as it were,
into three army corps. First, the true Jews, the
Notoires, as the Jewish Archives call them ; that is,
the known Jews, who venerate officially Abraham and
Jacob, and who are pleased to maintain the possibility
of making their fortune by remaining faithful to their
worship. Second, the disguised Jews, or free-thinkers,
type of G-ambetta, Dreyfus, Professor Worman, etc.,
who carefully conceal their Jewish origin, but ridicule
the Christians in the name of the glorious principles
of tolerance, civilization and liberty. Third, the
conservative Jews, who, Christian in appearance, are
united to the two former classes by the closest ties,
and communicate to their comrades the secrets which
may be useful to them. In the above relations lies
the incredible success of the Jew.

Solidarity is the force of the Jew. All the Jews are
clannish in the extreme, which characteristic we ob-
serve in them from one end of the world to the other,
with an exactitude truly touching. One may easily
understand what an advantage this principle of soli-
darity gives the Jew over the Christian, who, while
readv to assist the unfortunate, has little of the senti-
raent of solidarity. Iso one can, more than myself,
admire charity, that sublime flower that Christianity
has caused to bloom in the human heart. That un-
weary charity, ardent and inexhaustible, which always
gi^es. gives without ceasing, not only money, but its

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whole heart, time, intelligence. The Christians open
their arms to the unfortunate. They are ready to
respond to an appeal, but they do not keep close
together. Accustomed, which is after all quite nat-
ural, to consider themselves at home in a country that
belongs to them, they do not think of mustering their
ranks in close array to resist the Jew. Accordingly,
the Jew can easily attack us with surprising insolence.
To-day it is a merchant whose capital the Jew covets,
and the entire Jewish commercial world combines to
force him into bankruptcy. To-morrow it is a writer
who has wounded them, and whom the Jews reduce to
despair, perhaps to drunkenness or madness. Again,
there is a •gentleman bearing a time-honored name,
.and who, unwittingly perhaps, has rudely accosted a
spurious Jew baron. Plans are immediately formu-
lated to procure for the unfortunate a J ewish mistress
for blackmailing purposes. Sometimes no efforts are
spared to engage the victim into a supposed advan-
tageous affair. His hopes are aroused by a first gain,
but finally ruin and perhaps infamy are branded upon
his once fair name.

Had the merchant, the writer, and the aristocrat
united, they would have escaped, they would have
mutually defended one another. Each would have
brought assistance to the other ; but they succumbed,
without even suspecting who was their cruel enemy.
By reason of this solidarity, everything that happens
to a Jew, even in the remotest corner of the desert,
assumes the proportions of an event. The Jew, in
fact, has a way of braying that is peculiar to him-

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self — "Grow and increase, ye numberless posterity of
Abraham;'5

As soon as a Jew becomes interested in any matter,
a great commotion is sure to break forth. How did
Olivier Pain die? Nobody knows. His friends are
sorry for hiro, but the public at large takes little, if
any, interest in his fate. Now it so happens that
Bismarck, who is desirous to have France and Eng-
land estranged the one from the other, formed a plan
to have Lord Lyons, who for many years had been the
English Ambassador in Paris, ill treated. Thereupon
the Jew, Goedschel Selikowitch, appeared upon the
scene. He published a pamphlet entitled, The Sheol
of the Jeivs, and the Sest of the Egyptians. That is
all that is known of him. In return he knows the most
secret things, he saw Olivier Pain shot, he affirms it
upon his honor, he declares that this outrageous ac-
tion must not remain unpunished. He is believed.
Meetings of indignation are organized, and Eng-
land and her venerable queen are both outrageously
insulted. Diplomatic notes follow. Eochefort swears
that he will avenge by the death of Lord Lyons
the murder of Pain. Everybody is frightened. The
English Embassy closes its doors.

A wretched Jew sufficed to create all this hubbub.
How does the Jew manage to disturb the entire world ?
Nobody knows. It is his secret, it is a special gift of
his and it comes quite natural to him.

No matter to what country a Jew may belong, he
will never fail to find assistance proffered to him.
Country, in the sense we attach to this word,, has no

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS. 29

meaning whatever to the Jew. I do not clearly see
why one should reproach the Jew for attaching a dif-
ferent meaning to the word country than we do. To
use an energetic expression of the "Alliance Israelite "
the Jew is a member of the "inexorable universal-
ity" "What does country mean ? The land of our
fathers. The sentiment of country is engraved in our
heart, just as names are cut into a tree, and which
each year that passes causes to adhere and penetrate
more deeply into the bark in proportion as the tree
grows older, so that in course of time both name and
tree make one whole. One cannot be an improvised
patriot. Patriotism exists in the blood, in the bones.
Can the J£w who is continually wandering, who is a
nomad, experience sentiments so lasting ? No
doubt one can change country, as so many foreign-
ers do every day in America ; as many Italians did
at the time of the arrival in France of Catherine de
Medicis • as the French Protestants at the time of
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. But that
such transplantation may succeed, it is necessary
that the soil shall be very like the one left. It
is necessary that Christian elements shall be present
in the moisture of the ground. Furthermore, the
first condition of adopting another country is to re-
nounce one's own. Now the Jew has a country that
he never renounces. It is Jerusalem, the holy and
mysterious Jerusalem — Jerusalem triumphant or per-
secuted, joyous or afflicted, serves as a tie to all her
children who every year at the Eosch-Haschana say,
" next year in Jerusalem. "

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THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

Outside of Jerusalem every country, be it France,
Germany. England or America, is for the Jew simply
a place in which to sojourn, and where he may find it
profitable to live for a time : but of which he forms a
part simply in the capacity of a free associate or a
temporary member. If the reader would consider the
matter in its regular and normal condition, he would
be convinced that the Jew has no incentive that
weighs with him to be a patriot. Why should a Eoth-
schild, a BischofEsheim, be attached to the France of
Fontenoy, of St. Louis, of Henry IV. and Louis XIV. ?
Why should a Wormser or an Oppenheimer take any
patriotic interest in this land of ours ?

" By its traditions, its beliefs, its recollections," says
Drum out, "France is the absolute negation of all Jew-
ish temperament. When France has not burned the
Jew. she has obstinately closed her doors against him,
covered him with scorn, and has branded his name
with the cruelest insults.*'

Again, one must not judge the Jew after our own
ideas of right and justice. It cannot be gainsaid that
the Jew never fails to betray his employer. Cavour
used to sav of his secretary* the Jew Artom. "'That
man is precious to me, for he makes known what I
intend to say. I do not know how he does it, but I
have no sooner uttered a word or conceived a plan
than he has betrayed me, even before leaving mv
office.*' "Why should God have created the Jews/*'*
says Bismarck, " if it were not to serve as spies ? "

Sedecias poisoned Charles the Bald. The Jew
Meire poisoned Henry III., of Castile; the Council

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS,

31

of Ten discussed, on the 9th of July, 1477, the prop-
osition of the Jew, Salomoncini, and of his brother,
who offered to have Mahomet II. poisoned by his phy-
sician, the Jew Valcho. The Jew Lopez, physician to
Queen Elizabeth, was hanged for allowing himself to
be bribed by Philip II. The Jew Louis Goldsmith
served as a spy to Talleyrand, in England, during the
First Empire. The Jew Michel was guillotined for
having surrendered to Russia military documents.
Another Jew, a few years ago, stole the plans of the
Eussian War Office. Only to-day, October 26, 1887, the
notorious Jew, Menzil Mart, one of General Boulan-
ger's spies, stole from the commander of a garrison
in Austrian Galicia the plans of three forts, and fled
with them to Russia. "Who does not remember the
repeated attempts made by the Jewess Kaulla to
seize the plans of the French mobilization ? The
Jew, Gustave Klootz, betrayed General Hicks, who
was destroyed with his army by the soldiers of Mahdi.
The renowned poet, Krazjewski, trusted himself to the
Jew Adler, who sold him to Prussia, and the old Polish
bard was cast into a fortress.

These facts, which it would be easy to multiply,
have reference not to an isolated case which proves
nothing against a collectivity, but to the entire race,
the race of Abraham.

Is this considered espionage or treason by the Jews ?
Kot in the least. They do not betray a country that
they do not have ; they simply engage in a busi-
ness affair or a speculation. The true traitors to
their country are the natives, who permit the Jew to

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thrust his nose where he has no business. " The Re-
publican ministers" who, says Dramont, "not con-
tent with naming an officer of the Legion of Honor,
Oppert de Blowitz, a German by birth, and an English-
man when occasion may demand it. take him for a
confidant, communicate to him the secrets of the War
Office — they are the ones who deserve blame and con-
tempt. " By what right could you prevent a Jew, oscil-
lating between two countries, from favoring with his
information the one of the two that pays him the
best ?

This, it is well understood, renders very difficult
the study of the Jew in a criminal jDoint of view.

The evil the Jews commit, a frightful and fathom-
less unknown evil, enters into the category of crimes
committed in the name of " the right of state." To
assassinate, ruin, despoil the Christian, constitutes for
the Jew an act authorized by his religion, acceptable
to his God. As Eisenmenger explains it in his Ju-
daism Exposed, \ ' It is what the J ews call * to commit a
Korbaiv Such a Jew, who will, by the aid of his co-
religionists, reduce to despair or suicide a Christian
merchant whose place he covets, will be, in the esti-
mation of his own people, the most charitable, the
most serviceable, the most disinterested of friends."'

The absence of every serious statistical document,
and the ability with which the Jews, who are always

«/ ' ml

conniving among themselves, conceal their acts, sur-
round, I repeat it, every research of this kind with
difficulties .almost insurmountable.
In 1847 Cerfbeer de Medelsheim gave the following

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS. 33

interesting figures : " There are/? he said, " in the
twenty-two principal prisons of France about 18,000
prisoners. The number of Jews among these 18,000
is about 110. Now, the population of France being
34,000,000, the proportion of a prisoner is about one-
half per cent, on a thousand inhabitants. The Jews
being about 100,000 in all, the proportion of the con-
demned Israelites is, therefore, more than one on each
thousand of their co-religionists/' To-day, however,
the numberless Levys, Salomons, Mayers, etc., who
swarm the police departments, and who occupy all
offices from the highest to the lowest, never arrest
one of their co-religionists, excepting when driven to
the last extremity.

Maxime Du Camp, only a few years ago, 1867, thus
wrote concerning the dark ways of the Jews :

" The time served in prison by the Jew family
Nathans, father, mother, brothers, sisters-in-law and
sons-in-law, in all, fourteen persons, represent a total
of two hundred years of prison life. The Jews
are to be feared, not for their desperate deeds, for
they rarely commit murder, but for their tenacity and
persistency in evil ; for the inviolable secrecy they
keep among themselves ; for the wonderful patience
they display, and the facility with which they conceal
themselves among their co-religionists. The Jew
thieves rarely put themselves in open combat against
society. They are always in a state of secret and con-
cealed animosity. One would suppose that they are
pledged to vengeance, that they are in the right, and
that, after all, they plunder and seize only the prop-
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34 TEE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

erty of which their ancestors have so often been de-
prived and despoiled by ours.'5

Oftentimes they unite and engage in wholesale steal-
ing, just as one would enter into an honorable enter-
prise on an extensive scale. - They have their corre-
spondents, tbeir warehouses, and their buyers. It is
in this way that the Nathans proceeded, of whom we
have just spoken. Everything with them has a value :
the lead stolen from the public sewers, as well as the
handkerchiefs picked from the pockets of strangers.
The chief generally assumes the title of commission
merchant, and forwards stolen goods to the United
States, Germany, Kussia, England, Italy and to other
parts of the world. The quaint German-Hebraic jar-
gon that they speak among themselves is well-nigh
incomprehensible, and renders all means for their
capture abortive. They are the cleverest receivers of
stolen property, and conceal their nefarious doings
behind the screen of a business honestly pursued.

An old Jew fireman, called Cornu, was one morning
walking in the Champs Elysees, and was met by two
thieves, great admirers of the old Jew's bold deeds.
"Well, Father Cornu," said they to him, "what are
you doing, now ?" "Always the same grande sou-
lasse" he replied, with an innocent air — "always the
grande soulasse." By grande soulasse he meant mur-
der followed by theft,

Nathan, the senior, was a veritable patriarch, and
was imprisoned for the last time when seventy years
old on the 6th of May, 1852. He ostensibly carried on
the business of dealer in wood, and enjoyed a high

C US TO 31 S AND HABITS OF THE JEWS. 35

reputation in his quarter. He loved art, and was the
friend of artists, to whom he loaned money at the
modest interest of fifty per cent,

" The clan of the Nathans/- says the Celebrated
Cases, " has had its feminine celebrities also. Min-
ette, or Esther Nathan, wife to Mayer, was a thief of
watches, and also of money tills, and so was also her
sister, Eosine Nathan, famous for her elegant manners
and skill in disguises. She was twice in prison, and
twice did Esther put on the rich garments of her sis-
ter, because Eosine Nathan had, during many years,
deceived both her victims and the police, under the
most astounding and divers disguises. A society lady
when circumstances required it, she had her valets,
her carriages, her diamonds and silks. She had the
address and outward appearance of a great lady.
She was as clever a comedienne as she was a thief.
She closely resembled Schumacher, that well-known
daughter of a coachman, and who was one of the
elegantes of Paris, and was married to the Marquis of
Maubreuil. Her brother was in prison, while his
sister received the most distinguished people in
Paris."

These criminal associations of the Jews are handed
down from father to son. In the month of October,
1884, one called Mayer was arrested at Strasbourg,
where he kept a central bureau for stolen securities.
There was captured at his house shares stolen at Brus-
sels, representing a value of 400,000 francs. Also,
stocks belonging to Mr. Burat, a banker, valued at a
million francs ; also bonds stolen from the Widow Bon-

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temps, proprietor of the cafe in the Montmarfare the-
ater, worth 200.000 francs. It would seem difficult to
conceive how Mayer could have succeeded in entering
into relations with all these thieves scattered through-
out Europe had there not existed an organization
cosmopolitan in its scope, and doing business on a
stupendous scale. Can there be anything more sig-
nificant than the following letters, addressed to the

CD *

Paris Financial Association, concerning a famous
robbery, and signed Michael Abrahams ? Commen-
tary would be useless before the tranquil effrontery of
these people who serve as agents to thieves.

Telegraphic address.. )
Abraham. London. \

London, the 27th Sept.. Sox-lock.

To tlie Financial Association. Paris:
GrBNTLEMEN :

We have this clay received a visit from Mr. Samuels, who is
the agent of the holders of your shares. He begs us to inform

you that the shares of Xo. will be returned to you upon

payment of So per cent, of their value. As to the other shares,
fi City of Brussels," etc., he wishes you to make an offer of so
much per cent, before they are returned to you.

AVe believe that the shares of No. can be had for less

than 35 per cent. Please inform us what sum your clients are
willing to sacrifice for the return of their property.

(Signed.) Michael Abrahams, Son & Co.

Here is another letter from the same firm, while
negotiations were in progress, in the hope of obtaining
better terms :

Since the receipt of your letter of the 25th of October, we
liave received a visit from an agent of the unlawful keepers of

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your values. We are authorized to inform you that all further
negotiations are at an end, for his friends will not accept the
100,000 francs you offer. Accept, gentlemen, our sincere re-
gards.

(Signed,) Michael Abrahams, Sox & Co.

The murder of the watch-maker Peschard at Caen
serves to illustrate still further the character of the
Jew. All the accused were German Jews. Minder,
alias Graft, Gugenheim, alias Mayer, and Louise
Mayer all have the well-known physiognomy. Solomon
Ulmo, apparently an honest merchant, but in reality
affiliated to a band of assassins, presents a most strik-
ing appearance. There is nothing more remarkable
than the interior of the homes of these Jew malefac-
tors. Murder is looked upon only as a speculation,
and does not exclude domestic virtues. The family of
the TTlmos lived well at Chaumont, a city that con-
tains a considerable number of Jews. The son, ac-
cording to the testimony of the witnesses, was very
diligent in his business, was never seen in a cafe, and
was blindly obedient to his father. The most incred-
ible parsimony ruled in the household, the whole
expense not amounting to more than $6 per month.
The Peschard affair occurred on the 30th of August,
1857, and justice was meted out to the criminals; but
had this occurred to-day, it would have been immedi-
ately stifled. The Jews are not pursued to-day, ex-
cepting upon rare occasions, and when it is absolutely
impossible to do otherwise.

Hirsch, the banker, who was caught dealing in
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condemned, it is true, on the 8th of May, 1884, to a
fine of 7,500 francs; but said fine, relatively light, had
the character of a disciplinary penalty, of a family
reprimand, as it were. Were you, my reader, to pre-
sent yourself to the house of the Rothschilds with a
spurious bank-note, you would be arrested, imprisoned,
questioned as to your accomplices, and finally con-
demned to prison at hard labor. In the month
of August, 1885, two criminals, Gaspard and Mayer,
were convicted of the murder of a trunk manufact-
urer and were both committed to prison. Gaspard
was the unconscious instrument of Mayer, who con-
ceived the idea of the crime, and coldly proposed the
murder. But Mayer was a Jew, and consequently
was pardoned, while Gaspard was executed.

When the law pretends to busy itself with the Jew,
it is simply to acquit him. A few years ago the
wealthy Jew banker, Baron d'Erlanger, was in trouble
by reason of peculations of his. Jseediess to say that
the case was thrown out of court on account of non-
residence."

Respecting the complete impunity of the Jews, proofs
gather eyery day under our own eyes. " Is it necessary,"
says Drumont, "to recall to Parisians the little episode
of that poor Spanish courtesan, so full of vitality and
spirit, and who had an insurmountable horror for the
very idea of suicide, but who is believed to this day to
have thrown herself out of her window, when in truth
she was hurled from the height of a balcony by her
Jew loyer,who had in his veins the blood of a barbarian,
but dreamed of a princely marriage? The simple ex-

CUSTOMS AND EABITS OF THE JEWS, 39

agination of the spot would have convinced a child of
the utter absurdity and falsity of the theory of suicide/'

In 1882 a woman, a Sniyrneote, was arrested in a
great dry goods store in Paris, in the very act of theft.
This woman was found to he related to a J ewish actress
who wearies the world with her vagaries, all done for
advertising purposes. It was declared that the thief
was a victim to kleptomania. Imagine a woman be-
longing to a Christian family, and stealing an object
worth not more than ten cents in a Jew store, and you
will see if she is a kleptomaniac. Sarah Bernhardt,
fired with indignation on account of the book of Marie
Colombier, invaded, with three companions, the rooms
of her rival. She broke everything in her way. There
was manifestly a violation of domicile. Did anybody
prosecute her ? It would have been useless.

Most of the Jew failures in business are only prear-
ranged plans, committed with a view of robbing the
GentileT' To cite but recent events, says Drumont :
" Have we not seen two Jews of Mayence, the brothers
Bloch, establish themselves in 1882, on Aboukir Street,
Paris, and after having received many consignments,
run away in September, 1883, on the eve of a bank-
ruptcy of 300,000 francs? " In August, 1884, a North
German Jew, Mendel, established in Enghien Street,
Paris, fled with more than 600,000 francs' worth of
diamonds belonging to Christians who had trusted him.
The Jew, John David, director of the National Credit,
stole more than 3,000,000 francs, the savings of hard-
working people. Twelve hundred depositors brought
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trates allowed David to depart in peace. It was true
that afterward he was condemned to ten years' impris-
onment, and a fine of 3,000 francs, with fire years of
surveillance, but it was all the same to David. The
bird had flown to foreign lands to enjoy quietly the
products of his theft."

There are also kings among the Jews, as the Israel-
ite Archives call them. Ephrussi, a penniless advent-
urer not long ago, is to-day the king of wheat, as was
formerly Moses Friendlander, who died in San Fran-
cisco in 1878. Moses Banger was the king of cotton,
when, in 1883, he failed in Liverpool for about $4,000,-
000. Spreckels is the real king of the Sandwich Islands,
known also as the sugar king of- the Pacific coast.
Stroiisberg, alias Baron Hirsch, is the king of rail-
roads. There is also a king of baccarat, the Jew W.
E. Deutch, who won at the Washington Club and at
the Press Club more than 2,000,000 francs.

In an old Byzantine writer we find an interesting
but at the same time heart-rending account of a corner
in wheat, organized by a family of Tarsus Jews, the
chief of whom was called Johannes Eockefellos. The
result of this corner, while it brought fabulous wealth
"to the abominable clan of the Eockefellos, shattered
the foundations of our prosperity, brought ruin and
death to our beloved fellow-citizens, and prepared the
destruction of our fair city/5 The people, the author
informs us, finally arose as one man against the family; ,
but the three prominent brothers, Johannes, Moses,
and Wilhelm, made their escape to western Europe
and there were lost. The name is certainly suggestive.

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS. 41

The Jewesses furnish the strongest contingent to
the prostitution of great cities. This fact cannot be
denied, and the Archives Israelites have also recognized
it. "We reproduce in part the article. " For the last
quarter of a century moralists have been at a loss to
explain how it is that among the women who lead a
bad life a greater number of Jewesses are to be noticed
than of Christians. This unfortunately is but too true,
because in Paris, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna
and elsewhere, among the demi-monde, in the public
streets, and in the houses of prostitution, one meets
with a greater number of Jewesses than of Christians,
taking into consideration, of course, the difference
in number between the two populations."

This vice, however, has a particular character among
the Jewesses. It is certain that the Jew father and
mother unhesitatingly sell their daughters when they
are poor. The Jewess prostitutes herself for money,
and she does so boldly, deliberately, without the slight-
est shadow of intoxication, and with the firm determi-
nation of getting married as soon as she has accumu-
lated some money. They often marry an actor, a
merchant, or a financier.

A few years ago, in a trial in Vienna, a Jew lawyer,
Glaser by name, declared : " Every woman has the
right to sell her body and to derive by the sale the best
possible profit." The outraged public cried out in
loud condemnation. The presiding judge expressed
his astonishment. Glaser, however, asserted only
what Semitic tradition teaches. The Jewish prosti-
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is an excellent instrument of information to Jewish
diplomacy.

The Jewesses of the rich classes live, even here in
New York, in Oriental fashion. They take their siesta
in the afternoon, and live a sort of secret and isolated
life. They are strangers to violent passions, which -so
often trouble the heart of the Gentile woman lost to
religion. They are void of ail sentiment, of the ideal,
a peculiar characteristic of the Israelites.

What is the cause, the great cause of the ruin
of Gentile women ? It is the inspiration toward a
mistaken ideal, the dream of being superior to all
others, the chimerical hope of achieving indepen-
dence, the thirst for living, be it only for a few short
hours, in the ethereal regions of an esthetic existence
of ardent love and infinite tenderness. Neither the
Jew nor the Jewess has these sentiments.

A Jewess will never discuss religious questions, for
the Jew knows well the danger that may arise and
might cause the blindness of Israel to be revealed.
The Talmud formally forbids women the study of
religious subjects. He who teaches his daughter
the sacred law is as guilty as he who would teach her
indecent ways. 99 But if the Jewess does not know the
teachings of her religion, she practices it faithfully,
even in the most troubled existence. Miss Ada Isaacs
Menken, the actress, whom Rothschild called the in-
spired Deborah of her race, after having appeared for
thirty consecutive nights in San Francisco, all at once
stopped to celebrate the night of Koi-Xidre, and
passed it in a Polish Mimian. Xo sooner did an arti-

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cle appear against her co-religionists than she sent
an answer to- defend them in The Israelite, of Cin-
cinnati.

Here again we must praise the respect with which
the Jews surround a girl of their race, no matter the
calling she may follow. If an actress, they declare
that never has the world seen any one more beautiful.
They will go into ecstasy, into hysterics, they will cry
with admiration as soon as she makes her appearance.
If she returns to a normal life, all doors are open to
her.

Virginity, virtue, innocence, purity, are only so much
capital with the Jew, a capital that one must defend,
but which may be regained if lost. The loss of it is only
a bad bargain, over which one must pass the sponge of
oblivion without the slightest cause for grief. If an
artist, a merchant, or a financier ever gets into trouble,
you will always find that admirable solidarity which is
the only virtue of the Jew, which explains, justifies,
almost legitimates his success.

If a libelous sheet ever brings an accusation against
a Christian, all his former friends, acquaintances, and
associates will avoid him. One and all will say, " I
do not know him."'

But on the bench of infamy, at the feet of the scaf-
fold, the Jew never abandons his own, and will never
permit an insult that in his opinion and belief affects
" the great family."

If a drama is played in which a Jew is pictured in a
disagreeable light, no efforts are spared to have it fail.
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piece entitled Tlie Lender on Wages, in which the
usurer was a Jew. The director was called upon,
the matter was explained to him, and the usurer was
changed into a Christian.

Mr. Haliays-Dabot relates that it was intended to
produce in the theater of " Ambigu-Comique''
Shakespeare's immortal work, Tlie Merchant of Venice.
In this great creation, which revives the centuries of
oppression, which depicts the Jew, his secret in-
trigues and plots against the Christian, all blended in
the loathsome character of Shylock, whose sarcastic
laugh and cries of despair lighten the somber side
of the middle ages, everything, both time and place
of action, was changed, including the low and savage
type of Shylock, into a close Venetian merchant, solely
to please the Jews of the metropolis.

Imagine if the work of any great literary genius
ever suffered such a mutilation out of respect for the
feelings of the Christians.

THE LONGEVITY OE THE JEWS.

According to observations made in Germany
by the Jew Meyer, the average life of the Jew
is thirty-seven years, and that of the Christian is
twenty-seven, a difference of eleven years.

Dr. Lagneau read, a paper before the Academy of
Moral and Political Sciences respecting the increase
of population among the Jews compared with that
noticed among Catholics and Protestants.

According to the doctor the increase of Catholics,
Protestants and Jews is as one, two, three.

The Jews in Russia, Poland, Prussia, Austria and

CUSTOMS AXD HABITS OF THE JEWS.

45

France present the most rapid increase. In the two
countries last named it is seven times more rapid than
among the Catholics and Protestants.

But as the Jews, both as a race and as individuals,
are absolutely different in their evolution from the
Gentiles, they, the Jews, are also entirely different in
a sanitary point of view.

The Jew is subject to all the maladies that indicate
the corruption of blood, such as scrofula, leprosy, itch,
salt-rheum, erysipelas, and all skin diseases. Nearly
all the low classes of the Jews have the itch. Many
of the most elegant Jews whose hands we shake,
are likewise affected with it, though they keep
it secret. All take care not to engage a physician
who is not of their religion, an example that the
Gentiles ought to imitate. On the other hand, the
Jew possesses a wonderful aptitude in adapting him-
self to all climates. " There are Jews under all de-
grees of latitude, from the 33d degree of the south
hemisphere to the 60th of the northern latitude,
from Montevideo to Quebec, from Gibraltar to the
coast of Xorway, from Algiers to the Cape of Good
Hope, from Jappa to Pekin.'' Thus spoke one of
them in a transport of admiration.

Through a phenomenon that attracted attention
more than a hundred times in the middle ages, and
that has been noticed at the present day at the
time of the cholera in France, Spain, Italy and else-
where, the Jew seems to enjoy in respect to epidemics
particular immunity. There seems to be within him
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the ordinary scourge. He is his own vaccine as it
were, a living antidote. The plague recedes when it
smells him.

It is a matter of fact that the Jew is ill-smelling.
This smell exists even among the richest, a fetor
judaica. which indicates the race and assists them to
recognize one another. The most charming Jewesses,
notwithstanding the perfumes they use, justify the
words of Martial : " Qui bene olet male olet."

This fact has been a hundred times verified. All
Jews are ill-smelling, "puent," said Victor Hugo.

"In 1266," relates Hugo, "in a memorable assem-
bly that took place before the King and Queen of Ara-
gon, to which were invited the learned Eabbi Zeckhiel
and brother Paul Cyrac, a very learned Dominican, a
great discussion arose, during which the Jew cited
the Toldos, the Archives of Sanhedrim, the Talmud,
etc. The Queen, who evidently was impressed with
the great learning of the Eabbi, ended by asking him
why it was that the Jews smell so bad. The con-
sternation of the assembly may easily be imagined."

The question why the Jews smell bad has for a
long time puzzled many men. During the middle
ages it was believed that they could be freed of
this odor through baptism. Bail claims that this
offensive smell is owing to natural causes, just as
there are negroes to this day who exhale an unbear-
able odor.

Neurosis is the implacable malady of the Jews.
Among that people for so long a time persecuted, liv-
ing always in the midst of continual changes and

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS.

4:7

incessant activity, shaken afterward by the fever of
speculation, and following no professions excepting
those in which the mind is in continual energy, the
nervous system has ended by altering itself.

In Prussia the proportion of lunatics is much greater
among the Jews than among the Christians, for whilst
it is 24.1 in 10,000 Protestants, 23.7 in a like num-
ber of Catholics, the Jews are 38.9 in 10,000. In
Italy there is one lunatic among 384 Jews, and one
among 778 Catholics.

This neurosis seems to be transmitted even to those
whose mother only is a Jewess.

Sarah Bernhardt, with her dark forebodings, her
coffin of white satin constantly in her room, is evi-
dently a victim to neurosis.

One must not lose sight, however, of the fact that
the Jew, even in his most delirious conceptions, looks
out for self. Even when he loses his head he saves
the cash-box. This disease the Jew, strange though
it may appear, has communicated to our generation.
For the last twenty years that the Jews have held
the wires of secret diplomacy, and have reduced the
once honorable office of ambassador to mere parade,
European diplomacy has truly become unbearable
and foolish. The saying of Bismarck : " Paris is the
home of fools, inhabited by monkeys," can be as well
applied to Germany and to the rest of Europe. There
is no longer a shadow of conscience in the councils of
sovereigns, nor even of justice in government. Neu-
rosis deprives the Jew of all modesty, reflection,
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dares to do, and brings forth types of men altogether
different from those of former generations. To these
types belong those who have suddenly acquired for-
tunes of unheard-of proportions ; types of men who
lead an extravagant existence, possessing sums ac-
quired with astounding effrontery, an effrontery that
confounds all reason. The Jew always goes forward,
trusting in the Mazzal. What is the Mazzal ? It is
neither the Fatum of the ancients nor is it Christian
Providence. It is good luck, chance, the Jewish star.
Every Jewish life seems a realized novel.

Take, for instance, the notorious woman known as
Madame de Pai'va. Born of a family of Polish Jews
called Lachmann, she married a poor tailor in Mos-
cow, and, quickly tiring of him, came to Paris on foot
to seek her fortune. She experienced in the streets of
Paris all the privations of ill fortune, all the horrors
of venal love. She fell one day exhausted from inani-
tion in the Champs Elysees, and she swore to herself
that it would be on this very spot where her mansion
should rise, when fate, in which she blindly trusted,
would at last relent. She went to live with the
famous pianist, Herz, who introduced her to the
Tuileries as his legitimate wife. She was given to
understand that her society was not wanted, and she
swore to be. avenged. Shortly afterward she married,
this time regularly, the Marquis of Paiva, who, a few
months ]ater, committed suicide. She then became
the mistress of Count Henkel, one of the richest men
in France. She received diplomats, bankers, authors
and artists in her fairy home in the Champs Elysees.

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF TEE JEWS.

49

With the peculiar intelligence of her race which the
sentiment of hatred sharpens, she organized shortly
before the Franco- Prussian War a system of espionage
against the French, which facilitated her relations
with some world-famous diplomats, who daily dined
in her house and there discussed the affairs of France.
It was she who prepared the overthrow of the Second
Empire, and as Countess Henkel de Donnesmarck she
bought the diamonds of the Empress, by whom she
had been formerly repulsed, and caused to be built,
in the interior of Silesia, by Lefuel, the architect of
imperial palaces, a chateau, the counterpart of the
Tuileries from which she had been expelled.

She was a born artist, and although the daughter
of peasants, had the intuition and the refined con-
ceptions of a lady. But she was not happy amid
her princely surroundings, for she was a victim of
neurosis. She was tormented with the idea that peo-
ple wished to murder her. She forbade, under pen-
alty of immediate dismissal, any one to be in the park
when she was present. The woman who had ex-
perienced the pangs of hunger, and had belonged to
all, was more of a despot, more severe in her manners
and more haughty in her demeanor than a duchess.
She ruled her vast number of domestics most rigor-
ously, and instantly dismissed a poor mattre d'liotel
for having once smiled at a funny word uttered at
dinner. She was fifty-six years old when she died
of a disease of the brain in her Tuileries in Silesia.
Now, if one should collect all these traits and en-
deavor to establish a little order in the life and
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career of these strange personages, there would rise a
figure peculiarly Jewish.

What a subject for a novel the career of the son of
the Hungarian Rabbi, who subsequently became Mid-
hat Pasha, would furnish ! Once pasha, he began, ac-
cording to Jewish custom, by assisting his own peo-
ple, and organized Jewish schools in the Orient,
and then tried to introduce revolutionary doctrines
into Turkey, the land of stagnation, and soon found
means to disturb and arouse even the Turks, whom
one would suppose nothing could . disturb. He
created the party of young Turkey, and had for ad-
viser one Simon Deutch, a Jew, a political court-
ier, an apostle of anarchy, who had lived in the
houses of ambassadors and princes, as well as in the
beer saloons of the lowest quarters. It was under the
very eyes of Midhat in his konak, overlooking the
shores of the Bosphorus, that the Sultan, his bene-
factor, Abdul Aziz, was murdered. Midhat was dis-
graced, recalled, condemned to death, which he es-
caped. Finally he was banished to Djeddah, where he
still concocted new intrigues with the Madhi, which
finally made it necessary for the Sultan to poison
him. There are countless lives like these among the
Jews.

If you would see a true specimen of the public man
among the Jews, study the career of IN aquet. He
claimed to have discovered, when still a mere youth, a
process by which a city could be reduced to ashes. He
published a book entitled Religion, Property, Family,
in which he advocated common property in woman*

CUSTOMS AND HABITS OF THE JEWS.

51

In later years lie placed himself under an agent, and
•went from city to city preaching the adoption of di-
vorce in France. The Jew, even when successful,
always remains mean, mercenary and tricky. JSTaquet,
not content wTith degrading society, invented also a
pomade to make the hair grow and become glossy.
Thus Naquet was by turns a chemist, a lecturer, a
manufacturer, a senator, and furthermore he was
called by his people " the rampart of Judaism."

Divorce in France was an idea of the Jews. Mon-
seigneur Freppel, a Catholic orator, declared in a
public seance held on the 19th of July, 1884, that
the movement which will end by the adoption of the
law of divorce was purely a Semitic movement.
" Side, if you please, gentlemen," said the distin-
guished orator, " side with Israel ; we remain, we
abide with the Church and with France."

According to the Jewish doctrines contained in the
book Ketouboth, one is at liberty to repudiate his wife
without even returning to her her dowry, provided she
gives to her husband forbidden food to eat ; deceives
him respecting the period of her sickness ; walks bare-
footed ; speaks ill of her husband's parents ; talks so
loud when in her husband's bed as to be heard by
those sleeping in an adjoining room. . .

" The Jew," says Drumont, "not content with occu-
pying a prominent place in a society which he has not
created, seeks to overturn or at least to modify its
laws and customs. Formerly, if a man had acquired
proof that he had been robbed by his broker, in a
stock operation, he could appeal to the law for protec-

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tion. He could save a part of his patrimony, the
dowry perhaps of his daughter, the bread of his old
age. But under the law proposed by the Jews, he
cannot do so now, and the poor Goy must render to
Shylock his last penny. "

On every occasion the Jew's first thought is to bene-
fit his own people. Manufacturers find themselves
ruined by the Jews, despoiled of their income, and
robbed of their trade-marks.

Formerly, the European stock exchanges were
composed of an eminently honorable body of men.
To-day they are largely composed of tricksters, owing
to the admission into them of the Eothschilds and the
rest of the band of Jews. Is not this also true of the
Xew York Stock Exchange ?

The Jew has been the cause of the most dramatic
events that have occurred in the world's history.
He carries death and ruin with him into all the coun-
tries he invades, and into all the homes into which
he is admitted. Ruin and death have been the result
of most marriages of which one of the contracting par-
ties was a Jew. The Duke of Eichelien married the
Jewess Heine, and he went to die prematurely in the
Orient. The daughter of the Duke de Persigny mar-
ried the Jew Friedman, and ended her life in prison.
De Poliomac married the Jewess Mires, and ruin in-
vaded his home. Euin and dishonor invaded the
home of La Panouse. who married the Jewess Heil-
bronn. The lawyer Bernays, who married a Jewess,
was murdered by the Hungarian Jew Peltzer. The
Count Batthyani married a daughter of the Jew

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Schossberger, and was killed in a duel by the Jew
Eossenberg, while the Count's wife contracted a new
marriage a few months later. In the month of Feb-
ruary, 1883, Daniel ISTaquet, one of the richest Jews
of the south of France, and a relative of jSTaquet, the
hair restorer, threw himself out of the window of his
house and fractured his skull. In the month of Oc-
tober, 1885, the rich Jew banker Primsel, the partner
of Dreyfus, of guano fame, threw himself into the
Seine from the top of a bridge.

Sudden death is, however, more frequent among
the Jews than suicide, although the latter has in-
creased of late with astounding rapidity, a fact which
attests that neurosis is a disease with which nearly ail
Jews are affected. What more terrible spectacle than
the neurosis of the Jew Paradol, who was made so
much of, bowed down to as a great man, and yet, at
the age of forty, ended his days in so tragic a manner
in "Washington, after leading a showy, fastidious, but
empty existence, which, in many respects, recalls the
career of the Jew Gambetta. There, again, the fatal-
ity common to the race strikes, in a pitiless manner,
the Paradol family. The son committed suicide at
the age of twenty, while the daughter, to whom Ma-
dame Eothschild, for personal motives, had offered a
dowry of 100,000 francs, refused to marry, and en-
tered a con vent, sorrow's last refuge.

We have enumerated only the events which occur
among the upper classes, and which cause a profound
impression. It would be difficult to collect the num-
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classes ; the deeds committed in the more modest
spheres, where the Jew, if he does not himself com-
mit the crime, is the instigator and the cause.

The Jew who, according to the saying of Hegel,
" has been precipitated beyond' nature," has sought in
vain through prodigies of astuteness and patience to
enjoy social lif e ; he is always driven from it, seem-
ingly by an invincible force.

A drama, similar to the one that took place in the
palace of Mykense, has already forced the door of the
proud house of the Eothschilds, who thought that they
had made a compact with fortune. The entire world
spoke of the suicide of Baron Jacob Eothschild, which,
in many respects, recalls the tragic death of young Bel-
mont, the son of one of the richest Jew bankers in
New York. Although the Eothschilds have made the
Christians pay dearly for that death, they do not
forget that the blood of a suicide leaves an ineffaceable
stain, brings an irresistible misfortune into a house,
and over it suspends a curse. They feel, amid their
feasts, that a certain ominous bird hovers over them
ready to claim its own.

Mystery surrounds the terrible scenes which are
continually enacted among the Jews. In vain we may
try, we cannot ascertain the motive for the extraor-
dinary acts of either Eothschild, Belmont, Wimpfen,
or of many others.

The race, although well-conditioned for rapid prop-
agation, nevertheless degenerates. Tradition relates
that a certain inhabitant of Sicily, during the reign
of King William, found in the earth a bottle that con-

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tained liquid gold. He drank it and again became a
youth. But gold has not effected this transformation
among the Jews. Examine them where you will and
you will find that financiers, diplomats, journalists;
wire-pullers, one and all, are a prey to ansemotrophy.*
Their eyes, which roll with feverish anxiety, denote
hepatic + maladies. The Jew carries in his liver the
secretion produced by the hatred of eighteen centu-
ries. There are instances of heart-rending atavism \
among them. The race, in proportion as it leads a
civilized life, returns to the primitive type of pure
Orientalism. They live in rooms hermetically closed,
just as the lower class of Chinese do, where reigns an
over-heated atmosphere. In the immense hotels in
Vienna they constantly seek the seclusion of corners
and dark, hidden places, even in broad daylight.
Take into your hand the little womanish fingers of
the young Jew, which end in the shape of a shuttle,
and, while they still denote the peculiar penchant of
the race, they no longer have the solid and curved
form of their fathers. The young Jews have the
sickly color of wax ; they tremble under our Northern
sky, and, when they can afford it, they skulk away to
Bermuda or to Xice. This physical condition, in
part, explains the sadness that is the distinctive trait
of the Jew's character.

* Ana?motrophy. a deficiency of sanguineous nourishment,
f Hepatic, pertaining to the liver.

1 Atavism, the recurrence of a disease of an ancestor in a
subsequent generation after an intermission for a generation or
tvro.

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Ix order to succeed in their attacks on Christian
civilization, the Jews have to assume the dissruise of
the free-thinker. They shield themselves from the
superstitions and prejudices of the-Christian faith be-
hind those empty but high-sounding phrases, liberty
and emancipation. At no remote period they were
in the habit of celebrating secretly in their homes
their religious rites, but little by little they have become
indifferent in the exercise of them.

Besides the great religious feasts which tend to unite
the whole race., as, for instance, circumcision, the
Purim, Bar Mitzwa. there were formerly a thousand
other ceremonies that closely drew together the bonds
of the fraternity. A Sioum, that is to say, the end of
a chapter of the Talmud, studied either by a society
or by a private person, gave occasion to a repast.
When it was announced that there was ZocJier at a
house, that is, that a male infant had been born, the
privilege was accorded even to a stranger to. go and
salute it. The week that preceded a marriage was
spent in festivities on a large scale. The table was
loaded with those sweetmeats and those cakes that
Henry Heine has more than once enumerated. These
ceremonies, however, are to-day among the things of
the past. But it must not be supposed that the Jews
are less faithful now than formerly to the cardinal re-

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ligious rites of their faith. A Jew editor of even a
low revolutionary sheet, after inserting a violent article
in which our institutions are savagely attacked, and
our faith is ridiculed; a Jew editor, who laughs at our
sacraments, at our Christian doctrines and habits, is
the first to hasten to his synagogue, and there dis-
charge his religious duties.

It is true, however, that a sort of religious indiffer-
ence has entered the homes of many an Israelite.

If the Jews of Eoumania maintain at great expense
the Isrolzka family, the supposed sacred family, from
which it is believed that the Messiah will at some time
issue, if the Jews of Poland leave their windows open
when it thunders for the Messiah to come in, the great
body of the civilized Jews no longer believe in the com-
ing of the Kedeemer. They believe only in Israel, in
Israel at large, which will be the Messiah, or, in other
words, the great future reigning nation.

Michael Weil, a great Eabbi, says the prophecies
have never made mention either of a descendant of
David or of a Messiah King — not even of a personal
Messiah. The true Kedeemer, according to him,
would no longer be a personality, but would be Israel
transformed into a lighthouse of nations, built upon
the noble functions of humanity, teaching truth with
' its books, its history, its constancy, and its fidelity to
doctrines.

It does not seem necessary to answer this impudent
assertion. This gang of tricksters, of manipulators of
money, is to be the lighthouse of nations, nations that
have produced a Washington, a Franklin, a Bacon, a

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Shakespeare, a Charlemagne, a St. Louis, a G-oethe, a
Dante, a Socrates, a Leonidas, and so many others ;
nations that have produced the greatest thinkers, men
of the loftiest genius as well as the most admirably
organized societies ! The Jew must have lost his head,
even if the romantic hope of his race of acquiring
what numberless generations of Christians have found-
ed, created and produced, has been realized beyond
expectation.

By means of false promises the Jews succeed in
gathering from the pockets of the poor, from the
depth of woollen stockings and the pockets of old
coats, the savings which the faithful wife showed with
a happy smile to the husband, who feared that the
time was not distant when he would no longer be able
to work. With the product of these thefts they buy
historic estates, where eminent men of former times
rested after having grown old in the service of their
country ; thereon the degenerate scions of the aristoc-
racy disgrace themselves by bowing to and admiring
these thieves and spurious Jew barons, whose coat of
arms would be more appropriately impressed upon
pig-pens.

But how sad to think that these men are nominated
ministers and ambassadors, as in the case of Eaynal
Bischoffsheim and others. A feeling, however, of disap-
pointment has come over the Jews. They seem to say,
" Is this all ?" In the boxes of fashionable theaters,
paid for with the pilfered savings of the poor whom
they have reduced to despair, on the balconies of the
castles they have stolen, these victors are assailed by

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the cankerous thoughts which came over the biblical

Schelemo on the terraces of his palace and in the alleys

of his garden.

" Man has no advantage over the beasts. Both have

the same end. both return to dust/5

C:A living dog is better than a dead lion.''

" The best thing for man is to eat, drink and enjoy

himself."

Thus speaks in the Ecclesiastics Kohelet, the faith-
ful adherent of Sadducean morality. The vision of
death that comes with long strides, the vision of that
coffin that is raised into yonder magnificent apart-
ment, the windows of which remain veiled during
seven days, the appearance of that corpse which is
carried off almost in a decayed state, cast an inefface-
able shadow upon all the Jews.

The Jews avoid even to pronounce the word death.
We find in the Ketouboth that a rabbi was repri-
manded for having said in a funeral oration, " Many
men will empty the cup of life." Abbaye says, "Many
men have emptied the cup of life 99 is an allowable ex-
pression, but we must not say, "Many men will
empty the cup." In Beracloth Abbaye again forbids
the mention of the word death. The custom of throw-
ing water before the door of a house in which a death
occurred was due to this same sentiment. It was the
way of announcing the death to the neighbors without
employing the forbidden word.

Although the Jews have preserved the idea of one
God, their belief in a future life is wavering and con-
fused. The Pharisees had spiritual tendencies, but the

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Sadducees were absolutely materialistic. There is
little or no mention of the immortality of the soul in
the Pentateuch, and the only text that clearly speaks
of immortality in the Old Testament is the following
verse of Daniel : " And many of them that sleep in
the dust ol the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."

The Mischma forbids the discussion of these jorob-
leins, and the Agaclah brings to the defence of this
injunction the story of the four well-known doctors,
Ben-Azai, Ben-Zoina, Akiba, and Acher, who dared to
venture into the avenues of Paradise. The first died,
the second became a lunatic, Acher became an apos-
tate, while Akiba alone got out of the scrape by the
exercise of his daring and good sense. In a word, the
Jewish faith never puts in the first rank the doctrine
of future life.

The narrowness of the Jew's horizon is evident. He
is destitute of the beautiful hope^ that are our con-
solation and our joy.

Swedenborg, in whom we often find descriptions
worthy of Dante, thus speaks of a particular part in
hell in which the Jews abound. "In this part of
hell," he says, "the Jews were in great numbers.
Their presence as they came near the other spirits
was manifest by a disgusting smell of rats. There
the Jews run about the streets in the mud, complain-
ing and uttering lamentations."

We must not omit to mention that the Jews of to-
day are much troubled and preoccupied with the
anti-Semitic movement that is apparent throughout

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Europe. From 1870 to 1879 they traversed a period
of delirious pride. " What happiness to live at such
an epoch " — " Es ist eime Lust zu leben" — the Jew
"Wolff wrote in the National Zeitung at the time when
the Laskers, the Bleichroeders, the Hausemanns, the
Ickelheimers, like hungry vultures, despoiled of their
billions the Prussians who were, so to speak, intoxi-
cated with glory. "What happiness thrilled the band
of harpies in France and Xew York who saw money,
palaces, princely dwellings, all in their possession.

But they have now lowered a little the tone of their
voices, for they feel that there is a movement among
the Christians of all countries which will be much
stronger than the Alliance Israelite Universelle.

The Jew is naturally a morose being. Enriched,
he adds insolence to his moroseness. He is what mav
be termed arrogantly morose. Drumont says that
hypochondria, which is only one of the forms of neu-
rosis, is the sole gift which the Jews have made to
France, once so gay, so laughing, and so abounding in
strength and gayety. "The Jews are both morose
and sombre, " said Shaftesbury in his Characteristics,
a sentiment profounder than it appears. It is an
error to believe that the Jew finds amusement in
the society of his own people; an error even to
believe that he loves them. The Christians seldom
support one another, but they love one another, they
experience pleasure in seeing one another. The Jews,
on the contrary, sustain one another even unto death,
but they cannot tolerate the society of one another.
As soon as they are no longer engaged in business

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they run off like one possessed, They do not feel at
ease in the society of Christians, and a word of vene-
ration for the Founder of the Christian religion suf-
fices to render them ill. A pleasantry at the expense
of Judas, while they may receive it with a sickly
smile, really exasperates them. In fine, the following
injunction written over the doors of the Ghettos in
Italy is something that the Jews everywhere follow :
" Ne populo regni coelestis hoeredi usus cum ex-
lioerede sit."

"Let the people, heirs to the kingdom of Heaven,
have nothing in common with those excluded there-
from/5

At times a smile full of meaning illumines these
bloodless visages at the thought of some joke played
upon a Christian. The fox, in fact, is the allegorical
beast of the Jew. The Meschdbot Schualim, or The
Fables, of the Fox, is the first book put into the hands
of the young Jew. Later in life he finishes his
training by exercising every manner of deceit and
theft upon the Aryan. After having, for instance,
like Bleichroeder, organized the expedition against
Tunis, which cost France the lives of many of her
children and the alliance of Italy, he tramples upon
the dignity of his victim by causing himself to be
nominated commander of the Legion of Honor by an
unworthy and corrupt minister.

It may seem strange to the reader if we add that be-
sides the above characteristics there is another side in
the Jew^s nature, resembling the innocence of a child.
Innocence among the Jews ! You are certainly jesting!

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It is not a jest. The Jew, who is the embodiment of all
that is sharp, close and most contemptible in nature,
has the astuteness of the savage as well as the vanity
of a child. His mouth opens with pleasure as he
contemplates some cheap mark of distinction bestowed
upon him, just as the mouth of the African opens,
whose eyes and teeth shine with pleasure when he ob-
tains a piece of painted glass or a remnant of some
gaudy colored cloth.

Did you ever notice the Jew Free-Jlasons when out
on parade ? There is among these vain creatures a
child-like pleasure in wearing a costume which dis-
tinguishes them from the rest. When the Jew re-
lates to you that he has been rewarded with some
cheap medallion for vending chocolate or shoe-black-
ing, or some other such stuff, his pale face lights up
with a ray of happiness similar to that which often
illumines the faces of children upon the possession
of some new toy.

THE JETTS' HATRED FOR THE CHRISTIANS.

The sentiment that dominates the corrupt and pas-
sionate soul of the Jew is his hatred for the Church and
its ministers. This hatred is, after all, natural. The
vow of the missionary is a permanent mockery at the
wealth of the Jew, who is incapable of buying with all
his gold what the poorest Christian possesses — faith and
hope, sentiments absolutely unknown among the Jews.
Religion among the Jews is fidelity to tradition, an
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is not a word in the Hebrew language to express faith.
The Jewish word emouna means constancy, tenacity,
but not faith.

Simon, alias Loekroy, may insult yonder poor mis-
sionary. Dreyfus may raise his voice against those
poor sisters of charity who are ever ready to sac-
rifice their lives upon the field of battle or in the
chambers of sickness. There will always remain to
them the crucifix they wear around their necks. The
fact alone that their sublime virtues and disinterest-
edness exist is like a thorn in the bed of the vulgar
Jew Sybarite who feels himself powerless over these
souls.

But if the Jews, these perpetual agitators, have well-
nigh succeeded in shaking the foundations of society
with the money they have wrongfully acquired, the
fact remains that the day is not far distant when a new
society will rise that will crush them. The day is
near at hand when all their ill-gotten gains will be
distributed amongst those who will take part in the
mighty struggle now brewing, distributed as formerly
lands and fiefs were distributed among the bravest.

In Germany, in Eussia, in Austria, in Roumania,
in France, even in America, where the movement just
begins, all classes, rich and poor, in fact all of Chris-
tian origin, agree upon one point — the wisdom of
forming an anti-Semitic alliance, an alliance directed
against the Jew.

" In all affairs," says Bossuet, " there is a something
that prepares them, determines them, and leads them
to success." The true science of history is to study

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65

the secret causes that have brought about great
changes and the important conjunctures that made
them occur.

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE EXPULSION OF

JEWS iiy 1394.

The Jews came into France shortly after the inva-
sion of .the Romans. In the fourth century, toward
the year 353, they assassinated a Eoman officer, who,
after having governed Egypt, returned to Gaul by
order of the Emperor Constats. Among the Gauls,
the Jews were no better received than they were in
Rome. Kor were they better treated by the Visi-
goths. The council held iz. forbade the Chris-
tians to associate with the Jews or to eat with them.
Clotaire II. withdrew from them the right to begin
an action against the Christians, in 633 Dagobert
II. expelled them from his States. They were always
punished for their usurious dealings, but they always
repeated the offence, and finally th^y became so rich
that we find them in later years prominent even in po-
litical affairs. Charlemagne added a Jew to the em-
bassy he sent to Haroun-al-Raschid. Their influence
was so great that, not content writh obtaining freedom
of worship, they sought to pass a law that no business
should be transacted on Saturday, and demanded
hea^y import duties destined to crush their Christian
competitors, while they were themselves arch smug-
glers, and the manufacturers of spurious goods which
they palmed off as being imported. They were,

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furthermore, the associates of all the lowest elements
of those times.

As to-clav. their audacity in wrong-doing made
everybody dislike them. The Bishop of Lyons wrote
a treatise entitled The Insolence of the Jews, which
paper, were it to be done into English, would faith-
fully describe the life, and the low. vulgar, nauseat-
ing ways of the modern Jew, in the transaction of
business.

Drawn toward the Orient by the attraction of race,
the Jews unceasingly connived with the Saracens, to
whom they delivered Beziers, Xarbonne and Toulouse.
Owing to this treason, each year on Easter Sunday a
Jew was chosen, three slaps were given him at the
door of the cathedral, and a fine of thirteen pounds'
worth of tapers was imposed upon him.

Their condition, however, was gradually improved.
In 1131, when Pope Innocent II. went to France, the
synagogue took part in the immense parade that
passed before the Pontiff.

As Ions: as the Jews abstained from ruining the
country with their jobbery, their treason, and murder
of Christian children, they were left as tranquil as the
Christians of those times. They were as rich then as
they are now, and owned one-half of the city of
Paris.

A curious characteristic which denotes the in-
credible tenacity of the Jews, and the persistency with
which oral tradition is transmitted by this people for
whom centuries do not count, is their obstinacy in re-
turning as masters to a place from which they have

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been expelled. The mills of Cordeil, which formerly
belonged to the Jew Crescent, now belong to the Jew
Erlanger. Nearly all the domains of the Isle of
France, where the Jews used to live, belong now to
the family of Camondo, to Ephrussi, and to Koths-
child. The historian Michelet says : " With all their
rich possessions, the Jews of the middle ages lived as
they formerly lived in the Orient. They never failed
to torment the Gentiles. In times of epidemics and
political ruin they were in league with the vilest and
lowest element of society."

Peter the Venerable, Abbe of Cluny, mentions the
unheard-of crimes of the Jews, who profaned the
churches, overthrew the altars, burned the crosses,
whipped the priests, poisoned the monks, and forced
them to take to themselves women by threats and tor-
ments.

The Jews committed still more dastardly crimes.
The children, those candid and charming creatures in
the souls of whom the purity of heaven is reflected,
have always been the object of the Jews' hatred.
Herod caused them to be massacred. The Jews of
the middle ages bled them and then crucified them.
All the testimony, all the commemorative monuments
raised to celebrate a crime of which an entire city was
a witness, all authentic documents, everything upon
which true historic facts are founded, agree, and all
contemporaneous writers are unanimous in their testi-
mony concerning the assassination of Christian chil-
dren by the Jews.

The peculiar faculty of the Jew of sucking dry the

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prosperity of a country, as soon as he is left alone, had
assumed proportions beyond bearing. Bitter com-
plaints were heard on all sides. Philip-August, upon
his ascending the throne, confiscated a part of the
possessions of the Jews, and cancelled all debts due to
them. Napoleon was obliged to act in about the same
way. Every potentate who has the sense of right and
justice in him, every government, ought to act in a
like manner. It would suffice to say to them, " You
have not acquired the millions you possess by work,
but by deceit and lying. You have not created values ;
you have only possessed yourself of the values created
by others. Make part restitution of the wealth you
have wrongfully acquired." No one would find fault
that a Seligman, a Belmont, or a Eothschild, for in-
stance, should be left with a yearly income of half a
million only.

St. Louis, " the king without fear," determined to
ascertain for himself, and carefully to examine into,
the cause of the complaints and bitter animosity
against the Jews. This great and good king, who had
an inexhaustible love for justice, sought to know why
the Jews were the object of the hatred of all. "Upon
the demand of Pope Gregory IX., whose attention was
also called to this fact, he caused the Talmud to be
examined in a solemn assembly, over which presided
William d'Auvergne, and in which the rabbis were
in\*ited to take part. "It was in Paris, in the begin-
ning of summer, the 24th of June, 1240, when this
memorable council took place. The Court of St.
Louis was presided over on that day by Queen Blanche.

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. . . . A few volumes, covered with strange
characters, attracted the attention of the curious, and.
it became known through Nicholas, a converted Jew,
that the characters were Hebrew letters, and that the
books were the Talmud. But soon a more interesting
spectacle attracted the attention of the assembly.
Four rabbis had just entered the room. They were
Jechiel, of Paris ; Judah, son of David ; Samuel, son
of Solomon, and Moses, of Coucy, son of J acob — the
latter a famous orator known throughout France and
Spain. They entered, sad and uneasy, into the palace
of the king, while the assembled Jews scattered them-
selves about like a flock of sheep without a shepherd."

Every opportunity was given to the Jews to defend
themselves, which they did with courage and ability.
They, however, were forced to acknowledge that the
Talmud contained precepts not only contrary to the
good of Christian society, but of every civilized so-
ciety. Passages were read which horrified the listen-
ers. The book said that Jesus Christ was plunged
into hell, into ever-boiling mud ; that the Divine Son
of the Holy Virgin was the fruit of adulterous in-
tercourse with a soldier named Pandara, and that the
ministers were no better than howling dogs. Other
passages were read that increased the fear of the Jews
and the indignation of the Christians,

"It is right to kill the best of the Goy."

"The word given to a Goy need not be kept."

" Thrice every day, during their prayers, the Jews
must hurl curses against the ministers of the church,
the kings, and enemies of Judaism.

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St. Louis displayed an extraordinary amount of
moderation. As Jecliiel was trembling with fear, one
of the officers of the king said, " Jecliiel, who thinks
of doing any harm to the Jews ? "

The Talmud alone was condemned, and all the
copies that could be found were cast into the flames.

In conformity with his paternal goodness and kind-
ness. St. Louis took active measures against the Jews
only when he was forced to do so in order to protect
his subjects from these rapacious wolyes. The Ordi-
nance of 1254 forbids the Jews from practising usury,
from attacking or blaspheming the belief of the people
among whom they live, and enjoins them to follow an
honest living.

The Jews were now forced to walk carefully. The
times threatened to be bad for them. Their litera-
ture shows the disturbed condition of their mind. To
the light, airy verses, the suggestive and coarse songs
of the period., now succeeded plaintive elegies.

" Alas, the daughter of Judah is clothed anew in
mourning, because the shades of the evening have
spread."

" Hope in my goodness, oh, my dove ! I shall praise
as of old, my Tabernacle. I shall then prepare a lamp
to David, my king : then shall I repress the ferocious
beasts that have kept themselves in ambuscade, in
order to devour thee, oh, my beautiful dove ! whose
voice is so agreeable."

Their schools were closed, but we must not forget
that while the Jews for centuries wearied everybody
with their complaints and misfortunes, as soon as

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71

they obtained a semblance of authority they lost no
time in closing the schools of others.

We must, however, render this justice to the Jews.
They supported adversity in an admirable manner.
During these persecutions they stand forth almost un-
equalled in their heroism, patience and abnegation.
The mothers often threw their children ■ into the
flames through fear that they would be baptized.

On the 26th of May, 1288, on Good Friday, the
Gentiles invaded the house of the rich Jew, Isaac
Chatelain, arrested him and all his family. The
prisoners offered to buy their liberty with gold, but it
was not accepted. They were told that their lives
would be spared on condition that they abjure Juda-
ism. This they refused, and on Saturday, the 24th
of April, 1288, the 5048th year of the Jewish era, the
entire family, numbering thirteen, were cast into the
flames. All faced death with intrepidity, singing the
Schema and mutually encouraging one another. The
wife of Isaac herself walked into the flames, followed
by her husband and the rest of the family.

In order to appreciate fully this strength of charac-
ter, we must go back to the times in which these scenes
were enacted. Society was then absolutely religious.
The Jew, by placing himself outside of this society,
put himself not only beyond the law, but, to employ
the expression of Hegel, " he cast himself outside of
nature. " What had the Jews to gain by struggling
against so many united forces, when, since the fall of
their temple, they had found their God deaf to all
their prayers ? Their energy, however, was marvel-

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ous ; their courage in the face of death has never
been equalled. Then, and then only, does the Jew
become the personage that Michelet has painted in an
incomparable page that has the life of a work by
Kembrandt.

"During the middle ages, he who knew where gold
was to be found, the true alchemist, the true sorcerer
was the Jew, or the half Jew, the Lombard Jew. The
Jew, everywhere thought to be an impure being, the
Jew who could not touch a Christian woman without
risking his life, the despised being upon whom every-
body spat, — it was to him that one had to apply in
time of need. This prolific nation alone had what
may be called the multiplying force ; the force that
engenders, that increases the sheep of Jacob, as well as
the shekels of Shylock. During the middle ages,
though persecuted, banished, recalled, the Jews were
the middle men, the men who stood between the
royal treasury and the victims of the treasury; suck-
ing the gold from below and rendering it to the king
with an ugly grimace. Something, however, always
stuck to their fingers. They knew that they lived in
constant danger, and yet in their hands Was all the
wealth of the country. To-day they are free, and,
despite the kicks they have received, they have reached
their present enviable position. . . . Want, bitter
want alone, forced the poor man to address himself to
the Jew, to approach his dingy little house, to speak
to the man who had crucified his children. When
yonder poor man had spent his last resource, when
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slept upon the ground, trembling with fever, slowly,
and with downcast head, he directed his steps toward
the odious house of the Jew, and long stood before
the door ere he knocked. The Jew opened with
precaution the little window, and the following
strange dialogue ensued : 6 What did the Chris-
tian sav ?' 'In the name of God— 9 ' The Jew
killed this God of yours, did he?' ' In the name
of pity — ' ' Have the Christians ever shown pity
or mercy to a Jew ? These are not the words wanted
here. I must have a pledge.' ' What pledge could he
offer who had nothing?' 'My friend,' said the
Jew, ' in conformity with the laws of the king, I can
lend you nothing. No, this bloody garment and this
bit of iron will not do. The law prevents me from
advancing money upon such objects. But you can
offer yourself as a pledge. I am not of your race.
My right is not the right of a Christian. It is an old
right. Your flesh will do for me. Blood for gold.' "

The Jews were more harshly treated by Philip the
Handsome than by any of his predecessors. The edict
of 1306 expelled them, and decreed the confiscation
of their property.

The Jews kept up their courage, and determined to
be avenged.

It is an incontestable fact that the Jews entered into
a compact with the King of Granada and the Sultan of
Tunis, whereby they organized a conspiracy known as
the "League of the Leprous," composed only of per-
sons stricken with leprosy. This was done with a
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this way spread death, create one of those crises,
one of those vague periods of uneasiness and of trou-
ble, which have rendered possible the terrible up-
heaval of '93, so profitable to Israel.

Proofs abound, and the existence of a general upris-
ing of the leprous is attested by all contemporary
authors, one of whom says : " With our own eyes we
saw a woman afflicted with leprosy, and who, fearing
to be arrested, cast behind her a bundle of ra2's, which
was immediately brought to court, and upon being
opened, there was found in it the head of an adder,
the claws of a toad, and something resembling the
hair of woman, steeped in a dark and foetid liquor, —
a fearful thing both to see and to smell. The whole
was thrown into a blazing fire, but as it did not burn,
it was clear that it was a virulent poison."

Another writer says : " There were many opinions,
of which the most prevalent was, that the Moors of
Granada, seeing themselves so often worsted, con-
ceived the plan of avenging themselves, and entered
into a plot with the Jews to destroy the Christians.
But as the Jews were already suspected, they applied
to the lepers, who were easily persuaded to form the
said league. The Jews advised these miserable fel-
lows that, as they were held in so despicable and de-
graded a condition, it would be well to compass the
death of all Christians, or at any rate spread leprosy
among them." The historian Michelet also relates :
"A well-known leper, seized with fear,
confessed that a rich Jew gave him money, and
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and human flesh, called the body of Christ. All
this was dried and battered down, and then a weight
was attached to it, and the whole was thrown into
the public fountains and wells."

Is it astonishing that the lepers were thus insti-
gated by the Jews ? Do we not see in this the
habitual manner and method pursued by the Semite
in his work of revenge ? The lepers, the downtrod-
den people, the pariahs, the moujiks of Eussia, are
to the Jew only ready-found instruments that he
arouses, agitates, deceives, and lets loose upon society,
with fat promises and big words, and that he after-
ward abandons to their fate. Pay no attention to this
singular mixture of urine and human blood, but sup-
pose that the ingredients are petroleum, nitro-gly-
cerine or dynamite, and you will be in the full tide of
the modern movement — a movement headed by the
Jews who preach the use of fulminating cotton, or
by those like the Jewess Jessa Heffmann, who in
Eussia preaches dynamite, or the Jew Most who, in
America, preaches anarchy,- and then conceals himself
under a harlot's bed ; all these dastardly crimes are
the peculiar business of the Jew. Did not the Jew
Mezzeroff, only the other day, here in 2s~ew York, in a
public lecture, advise bomb-throwing as the only
means left to the Irish to obtain their rights from
the English ? And are not the greater part of the
criminal anarchists in Chicago of the Jewish faith ?
The Aryan temperament does not adopt this method of
revenge. The Aryan will thrust a knife into you, or
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of this peculiar chemistry. During the last Cretan
insurrection the Jews threw poison into the wells
around Chania, and many Greek volunteers died from
the effects.

The hatred of the crucifix is a dominant sentiment
of the Jew. King Jean the Good tried to win their
loyalty by generous concessions. But the Jews con-
tinued in their evil doings, and in their unaccountable
intrigues and jobbery.

Thev began anew to ruin the country, and it is also
positively asserted that they strangled Christian chil-
dren on Good Friday. The people of those times,
who were less patient than those of the present day,
rose against them, the preachers denounced them
from the pulpit, and in the course of time the kings
were compelled to adopt stringent laws against them.

Charles VI. issued, on the 17th of September, 1394,
a rigorous decree of banishment, and forbade them,
under penalty of death, to remain in his kingdom.

Two years were allowed the Jews to wind up their
affairs, after which time they were obliged to quit
France. This date of 1394 is one of the most im-
portant, not only as regards French history, but
also as regards Christian civilization. Former kings
exercised both mildness and severity toward the Jew.
But now it has been proved that the Jew could not
become acclimatized to the soil of France. The most
diverse races — Celts, Gauls, Gallo-Romans, Germans,
Franks, Xormans, have been fused into that harmo-
nious whole which forms the French nation of to-day.
They smoothed down their differences, and have niutu-

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ally tolerated one another's faults. The Jew alone
was not able to enter into this amalgamation,, The
people therefore said to him, "My friend, we cannot
get along together. Let us separate, and good luck
to you."

This may be termed intolerance, but it is intoler-
ance only in the sense that science applies to the
word when it says, "The subject cannot tolerate this
matter." France could not tolerate the Jew? and ac-
cordingly expelled him. She will receive him back
after many long years, but she will be sick of her
bargain, which will inevitably cause her rain.

Owing to the elimination of this vermin France,
which was still plunged into the horrors of war, at-
tained, with an almost astonishing rapidity, a degree
of almost incredible prosperity. She again became
the great European nation, and ruled with her arms,
letters, arts, exquisite courtesy, taste, and with the
charm of her benevolent, kind, and social nature.
She became the arbiter, the model, the envy of the
world. She counted among her sons famous generals,
illustrious statesmen, incomparable writers. She met
with triumphs and reverses, but her honor remained
spotless. She was not exempt from vices, but her vices
were not those which degrade, and when she rushed
to arms, it was neither for the sake of the Mexicans
nor for the Tunisians. At home her people were, if not
rich, at least happy, because the Jew was not there to
bring havoc with his jobbery, his fanaticism, and his
parasitism. Beginning with 1394, the glorious time
when the Jew was banished, France kept on the road

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of prosperity : in a word, she ascended. From the
year 1789, the ill-omened year when the Jew was
received "back, France moved unceasingly on the
downward track.

What became of the Jew from 1394 to 1789 ? No-
body knows. He disappeared, he vanished, he bur-
rowed like the groundhog, or, like the hunted rab-
bit, changed his place of action, modified his plans,
cooled his ardor. He seems to have plunged into the
dreams of tradition, to have been absorbed in the
study of the Zoliar or of Seplier Zetzirah. He became
an alchemist, a magician, and claimed to foretell the
future by questioning the stars. The one thought
which preoccupied him throughout this time was how
to act. Both France and Spain had closed their doors
against him. Spain, which the Jews surrendered to
the Moors, expelled him, and in a short time after-
ward the chivalrous Spaniards foot by foot recon-
quered the soil of their country, and being rid of
the Jews, they were enabled to add glorious pages to
their history, such as we find during the reign of
Philip II.

The Jews naturally considered Germany as their
land of promise. Germany was, at that time, divided
into a number of small principalities, hence the royal
authority was less powerful than on the other side of
the Ehine. But Germany hated the Jew as much as
France did, and now and then did not hesitate to burn
a few of them.

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79

Darmesteter says that the Jew was also occupied at
that time in laying bare the vulnerable points of- the
Church, and that he brought to this task the formida-
ble sagacity of the oppressed. He was the adviser of
the unbeliever. All free-thinkers, all whose minds
were dissatisfied, diseased, came to seek him in their
darkness. The Jew was at work in his great workshop
of blasphemy. It was he who forged the poisonous
and corrupt arms of irony — shafts which he be-
queathed to sceptics and libertines, and the sarcasm
of Voltaire may be considered as the last expiring
echo of his work.

Protestantism served as a stepping-stone to the Jews
to regain a foothold in society.

In 1520, the very year when Luther burned the Bull
of the Pope at Wittenberg, the first edition of the
Talmud was printed in Vienna.

Luther, however, was far from being the friend of
the Jews. He was more cruel toward them than any
Catholic priest has ever thought of being. " To ashes,
to ashes with all the synagogues, and all the houses of
the Jews. Let them be all packed into stables, let all
their treasures and goods be taken away from them,
and let them be used for the maintenance of converts.
Let the Jews and the robust Jewesses be forced to the
severest labor. Let their books of prayer be taken
away from them, and be it forbidden them under
penalty of death to ever pronounce the word of God.
Let there be no mercy or pity shown to the Jews. Let
our princes drive them out of their provinces. Let
the ministers inculcate into the minds of their hearers

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hatred of the Jew. Had I authority over the Jews,
I would call together the most learned and the richest
of them, and would threaten to have their tongue
cut to the very roots, in order to prove to them that the
Christian doctrine does not teach one God only, but
a God in three persons."

These were the words of Luther, the apostle of Prot-
estantism.

Protestantism, however, was profitable to the Jew.
It gave him the opportunity to enfranchise himself,
and permitted him to remain in Germany, where he
again exercised his usurious nature, from which the
Church, with a maternal solicitude, during many a-
century protected the Aryan.

The picture of that epoch of transition is curious to
study on account of its analogy with the movement
that takes place to-day. People then lost the taste
for work. They sought enterprises which promised
large returns for as little work as possible. The num-
ber of drinking places increased to an alarming extent.
Farmers became poor, and were forced to sell their
products at any price. Corporations were impover-
ished ; in fact, the whole population stood face to face
wTith ruin. The greater part of the people threw
themselves into the fever of speculation, and, as it
always happens, the majority were ruined, while a small
proportion only became wealthy.

In the mean time the Jews were constantly conniv-
ing among themselves and casting longing eyes to-
ward Prance. But the times were not as yet propi-
tious for Israel. Louis XII. imposed upon the coun-

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tries newly acquired by France the same decree of ex-
pulsion as was promulgated by Charles VI., which act
of his won for him the surname of Father of the
People.

A few Jews expelled from Spain succeeded in find-
ing at that time a domicile at Bordeaux. But with
what great precaution they had to act ! What a num-
ber of disguises tbey had to assume ! It is to the credit,
however, of this colony, to say that they repaid their
hospitality to France by giving to the world Mon-
taigne, and it is a fact that for at least one hundred and
years they abstained from exercising their faith
in any form whatever. The letters-patent granted by
Henry II. authorizing their sojourn were delivered
not to the Jews but to new Christians.

Another band tried to enter France by another way,
and in 1615 it was found necessary to enforce anew the
edict of expulsion, which, however, was not strictly
carried out, as the Jews, during the minority of Louis
XIII., had come into France in considerable numbers.
They had a powerful protector at court, one Goncini,
who was surrounded by a great number of Jews, and
who was engaged in many an act of jobbery, wrong-
doing, and deceit. The history of that man reminds
us of the life of Gambetta, who may be considered as
a second incarnation of Concini. Fortunately, France
m those days had men who considered a hostile citizen
more dangerous than a foreign foe. A simple captain
named De Vitry, sword in hand, and attended by three
soldiers only, stood on a bridge and there hindered

the passage of Concini, the insolent adventurer, who
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was advancing, followed by a numerous escort, re-
sembling a regiment "Halt, there !" cried De
Vitry. "Who dares speak thus to me ?" said Con-
cini, and, as the presumptuous foreigner accompanied
his words with a significant gesture, De Vitry took
careful aim and pierced his brain with a pistol shot.
Upon this, he entered the palace of the king, and said,
"It is done." "Much obliged to you, my cousin,"
replied Louis XIII, to the humble captain whose
courage alone had just made him a relative of the king.
"You are a marshal and a duke, and I am happy to
be the first to salute you with your new title."

Heroism to-day, however, does not enter into our
relations with the Jews, who are permitted to under-
take everything, and slowly but surely to undermine
the foundations of our prosperity. Scarcely was Con-
cini killed when the order was strictly enforced for the
Jews to disappear. The only Jew who remained in
France was Lopez, who claimed that he was a Portu-
guese and formerly belonged to the Mohammedan
faith. The poor fellow ate pork to such an extent
every day that he fell sick, bat he succeeded in allay-
ing all suspicions regarding his nationality. He was
a dealer in bric-a-brac, then in diamonds, then a
banker, later an ambassador, and finally counsellor of
state. He was at once a Proust and a Bischoffsheim.

Henry IV. saw in Lopez an excellent instrument
with which to create trouble in the home affairs of
Spain. The death of the King put an end to this
plan, but Lopez was not discouraged, and returned to
the business of a diamond broker, in which he acquired

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83

such skill that uncut diamonds were sent to him from
every part of Europe, which he ground in a manner
not before known.

Richelieu, whose genius reminds us of that of
Bismarck, employed Lop?z as a spy, and intrusted
him with an important mission to the government of
Holland. The nature of the Jew both in prosperity
and adversity remains unchanged. His instincts are
always the same. If a Jew were crowned king, he
would find some means to sell the jewels of the crown.
Lopez did not neglect the furtherance of his private
ends during his extraordinary mission, and on his re-
turn to Paris announced a sale of bric-a-brac which was
more loudly advertised than the one by Sara Bernhardt.
He bought in Holland a thousand different curios,
said to have come from India, and their sale brought
him fabulous wealth. For a Jew, however, Lopez was
an honest man. He was accused of being a spy of two
governments, but it was shown that he served only
one, which fact alone may well raise a doubt in the
mind of the reader as to his being a veritable Jew. He
displayed his wealth with the bad taste so common
among his people. He had a beautiful house, of which
he constantlv boasted. But what is there astonishing
in this ? Baron Hirsch, the well-known Jew banker,
in the course of a dinner, said to his guest at the time
when strawberries were served, in the month of Jan-
uarv : " Do not hesitate to eat as many as you like.
The cost is dear, but I do not mind it." 'This same
Jew said to Lavisse, Professor of History at the Sor-
bonne, who was engaged to give private lessons to his

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son : (t Pray smoke this cigar. It is true that you
cannot afford to smoke as good at home, for it cost
me fifteen cents."

Lopez died in Paris in 1649, and was buried accord-
ing to the rites of the Catholic faith — a faith which he
'ostensibly exercised during his residence in Paris.

By carefully concealing their origin, the Jews ceased
to be regarded as the pariahs — that degraded class in
India of whom we are told that, before a native ex-
changes a word with one, he places his hand before
his mouth. Holland offered to the Jews an asylum,
and there we find them in great numbers.

Alone of all races, the Jew can exist in every
climate, but at the same time he cannot exist without
doing injury to others as well as to himself. With his
love for wrong-doing and intrigue, his mania for un-
ceasingly attacking the religion of Christ, the Jew is
exposed to certain temptations to which he is always
the victim. This, in part, explains the continual per-
secutions of which he has always been the object. As
soon as he enters into relations with the Germans,
noted for their love of the abstract ; or with the
French, so fond of change ; or with the Slavs, so given
to dreaming, he cannot restrain himself. He invents
socialism, internationalism, or nihilism. He hurls
upon the society that has received him revolutionary
doctrines, and finally all join in driving him away.

It is remarkable, however, that the Jew has been
powerless to make much of an impression on either
the English or the Dutch. He perceives by instinct,
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85

attempt anything against these two peoples, so wedded
to their own customs, so firm in their traditions, so
attentive to their interests. He contents himself with
proposing certain affairs, which are minutely discussed
by the natives, and only entered into when they are
good ; but he abstains from relating fabulous stories,
and does not create either a loan or a commune.*

Holland, which is a matter-of-fact countrv. averse
to that chivalrous ideal which is also so antipathetical
to the sons of Jacob, was the cradle of the modern
Jew. For the first time in his existence the Jew
found there not the splendid success which intoxi-
cates and destroys him, but the calm of long dura-
tion, the regular and normal life, f

* Xihilism and the Commune are the special creations of the
Jews. More than twenty thousand Jews joined the last com-
munal insurrection in Paris. The chiefs of the Commune were,
with few exceptions, ali Jews. The war with Prussia had drawn
toward the unhappy city of Paris a large number of Jews, who
flock always toward any spot where events are thrown out of
their ordinary course. Notice the following, all of whom occu-
pied a prominent position during the last Commune :

Babick, surgeon -in-chief ; Crabulinski, colonel of the staff;
Dombrowski, general of the forces of the Commune : Burnofr,
commander of a legion ; Echenlamb, colonel ; Kertzfeld, direc-
tor-in- chief of the ambulances ; Iziquerdo, surgeon-major ;
Landowski, aide-de-camp ; Mizara, commandant of the One
Hundred and Fourth Battalion : Ploubinski, staff-officer ; Wro-
bleswski, general; Rubilowicz, surgeon-major, etc., etc.

I A reaction, however, seems to have been produced even in
little Holland, because the Jews always end by exasperating
the most patient and peacefully-inclined people. At Amster-
dam, in 1884, the proprietor of the best cafe in the city refused

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It is Rembrandt whom we must contemplate,, study,
scrutinize, ransack, analyze, before we clearly under-
stand the Dutch Jew. Throughout his life Rem-
brandt lived constantly with Israel. His studio, re-
plete with countless bric-a-brac and objects of art, was
a veritable storehouse, resembling the shops where
second-hand goods are sold. The eye, on entering
his place, for a moment remained bewildered, but
from the extreme end a sordid old man, with a hooked
nose, slowly arose. It was Rembrandt himself. His
work is of Jew color, yellow, of that earnest, fervid
and warm yellow which looks like the reflection of
gold laid upon an old rowel of the middle ages, for-
gotten in a corner. How life-like are the Jews

to admit Jews to his establishment, claiming that their presence
was ruining his business, and that his guests asked him not to
permit Jews in his place. Xo matter in what circles the Jews
may move, rich or poor, they can never rid themselves of vul-
garity. Notice them in the railroad cars, with their filthy ways,
insolent manners, their feet stretched upon the seats. They seem
to feel that because they have paid their fare they own the whole
road. Judge Hilton, when he drove away the Jews from the
Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, did so after full and careful
deliberation, and because the presence of the Jews was detri-
mental to the interests he was in duty bound to protect. We
are grateful to the Judge for this act of his. There is not a
hotel at which the Jews congregate, but a peculiar stain
attaches to it. Coney Island dates its decadence from the day
the Jews invaded its Hotel Brighton. This is the reason why
the far-seeing Austin Corbin publicly announced that no Jews
would be permitted at either the Manhattan or the Oriental, on
the east end of Coney Island, and accordingly that part of the
island has remained respectable.

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87

painted by Eembrandt ! They seem constantly talk-
ing of affairs as they emerge from a synagogue, ever
occupied in discussing the value of a florin, or of the
last consignments received from Batavia. They wind
their way, stick in hand, wdth the air of a wandering
Jew, who feels as if he had reached a spot where he
can for a moment rest.

Owing to the, relatively speaking, quiet life which
the Jews led in Holland, their condition seems to have
improved. In England Cromwell was the jealous
protector of the Jews. It was he who raised the
decree of banishment that weighed upon them. Mean-
time the Jews were tolerated in Metz and Stras-
bourg, which proves that there is no victory without
its inconveniences, for the conquest of Alsace brought
into France a considerable number of Jews, whom
the country could well have afforded to do without.
About that time the French authorities insisted that
the old usages affecting the Jews should be relaxed,
because many of them were employed as military con-
tractors. This change benefited the Jews, whose num-
bers now amounted to upward of 20,000, and who
possessed property estimated at from four to five mil-
lions of our money.

Louis XII. had extended to the territory of Prov-
ence the ordinance that expelled the Jews from
France, but many among them followed the advice
given them by their co-religionists in foreign lands,
and pretended to be converted to the Christian faith.
In 1489, the year when it was reported that the Jews
were again to be banished, a famous rabbi wrote, in

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the name of his brothers, to the rabbis of Constanti-
nople, seeking advice as to what ought to be done,
and the following letter, dated the 21st of December,
1489, was received :

Well-beloved Brothers in Moses : We have received your
letter, in which you enumerate the misfortunes and the wrongs
you suffer. These have troubled us deeply, as they have you.
But the advice of the greatest rabbis and the governors of your
race is this:

You say that the King of France wishes you to become
Christians. Do so, since you cannot do otherwise ; but keep al-
ways the law of Moses in your heart.

You say that the Gentiles wish to take your property away.
Make your sons merchants, and through traffic you will, little
by little, get their riches and possessions.

You complain that they plot against your life. Make your
children physicians and apothecaries, which will enable them to
poison and kill the Gentiles without fear of detection or punish-
ment.

You say that your synagogues are being destroyed. Make
your children priests, and they will be able to destroy the
churches of our enemies.

And as to what you say, that you endure great vexations,
make your children lawyers and notaries, and urge upon them to
apparently embrace public affairs, and in this way you will dom-
inate the Gentiles, get their lands, and avenge yourselves upon
them. Do not neglect the advice we give to you, because
experience will teach you that from being low you will attain a
lofty eminence.

Y. S. S. Y. F. F.,

Prince of the Jews of Constantinople, 1489.*

*The original text of the two letters above mentioned '
was published for the first time by Abbe Bouis, priest of

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In Avignon, which was at that time a Popish
district, the Jews of France had found almost com-
plete liberty and comparative security. Avignon,
during the middle ages, may be called the Paradise of
the Jews. From time to time, of course, popular
uprisings took place against them, owing to their
cruel usury, but the Pope always intervened to appease
the people.

In Avignon, as elsewhere, the Jews did not scruple
to commit acts of dishonesty and scurrility toward
the Christians. For a long time there could be seen
at the entrance of the Church of St. Peter a holy-
water font, which recalled one of their offensive acts.
This font was entitled "The Font of the Beautiful
Jewess." A Jewess of rare beauty had penetrated
into the church on an Easter Sunday, and spat upon
the holy water. For this act of hers she was publicly
scourged, and a commemorative inscription recalled
both the sacrilegious act and the punishment im-
posed.

The Jewish colony at Bordeaux prospered to a
remarkable degree. As to Spain, after the defeat
of the Moors the people of that country followed
the example of France, and eliminated from their
bosom the elements that were the cause of continual
trouble.

• On the 30th of March, 1492, King Ferdinand of

Aries, in a work which bears the title, The Royal Crown of
the Kings of Aries, dedicated to the Councillors and Governors of
the City, by J. Bonis, Priest of Avignon, 1644.

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Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, upon the advice
of the illustrious Ximenes, issued a decree which or-
dered all Israelites to leave the country. The vears

J %:

following their e.vpulsion may be considered the most
glorious in Spanish history.

A. few families, thereupon, sought refuge in Portu-
gal. There they found a precarious existence, and
shortly afterward they were again expelled, and Mon-
taigne, whose parents were among those persecuted,
related the heart-rending circumstances of this new
exodus in a chapter that aroused more feeling than any
other page of the sceptic.

Montaigne and Dumas, both of whom are of Jewish
extraction on their mother's side, are the only two
French writers really worthy of being called writers
that the race of Israel has given us, both of whom,
however, are impregnated with Christian blood. With-
out seeking to establish a comparison between the two,
which would be strained, — between the laughing and
light mockery of the one, and the bitter raillery of the
second, — it may be affirmed that both have been de-
stroyers, both have put in relief the vices and weak-
nesses of humanity, without proposing any loftier aim
for man to strive for. Both were gigglers, and morose
at the same time ; both void of illusions and destroy-
ers of the illusions of others.

Xo writer has ever been more occupied with religious
questions than Dumas. None has ever penetrated
more deeply into the depths of the human heart.
Had his robust and virile intelligence been enlightened
by the truth, he would have rendered immense ser-

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rices to the world. He himself seems to have had the
feeling of what he was losing and of the harm he
caused to others by his unbelief. He never lent
his ears to any proposals, yile temptations, or to a
desire of being on good terms with the so-called free-
thinkers, of whom he often spoke with scorn, but he
was unable to take the one decisive step. He was born
blind, and he remained blind to the end of his days.
Vain were his efforts to escape from the fatality of the
race.

We have already stated that the Portuguese Jews
have never been able to enter France as Jews, but as
new Christians. " It is impossible," says a document
written in 1767, " to conceive of a plan formulated
with greater skill and cunning, than the one for the
establishment of the Jews at Bordeaux. That lie of
being new Christians was well calculated to please his
Christian majesty."

It is true that these Portuguese Jews always protest-
ed with energy whenever they were spoken of as
Jews.

In the year 1614, fearful that active measures
would be adopted against them, they addressed a pe-
tition to the king, stating : " For many years we have
been living at Bordeaux, and, owing to the bitter jeal-
ousy of which we are the innocent cause on account
of our prosperity, we are accused of being Jews,
when in truth we are good Christians and Cath-
olics."

They scrupulously adhered to all the outward prac-
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deaths were inscribed in the register of the church.
Their contracts were preceded by the words, " In the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."

After having liyed in this manner for nearly one
hundred and fifty years, the Jews remained as faithful
to their belief as on the day when they first set foot
in France. As circumstances fayored, by degrees,
they more openly returned to Judaism, had their
children baptized in their faith, and old marriages
were celebrated anew according to their own rite. A
large number of Jews also, whose families had for
two centuries officially practised Catholicism in Spain,
crossed the frontier, in 1686, and came to Bordeaux
to be circumcised, and remarried according to the
Jewish faith. The persistency, the stubborn vital-
ity of Judaism, which nothing eyer impairs, oyer
which centuries glide without making any impres-
sion, and which maintaius itself in all its entirety
from father to son in the intimacy of the home
circle, is certainly a most curious phenomenon for an
observer.

In 1839 an English Jew wished to communicate
with his co-religionists in Spain, and after a great deal
of trouble obtained a letter of introduction to a few
Jews in that country. He arrived at the house of a
Jew in a certain city in Spain, the name of which he
discreetly does not mention. On entering the parlor
he found it full of statuettes of saints, silver crosses,
and other sacred images. He made himself known,
but his host, after welcoming him, begged him to say
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93

people of the country believed him to be a zealous
Catholic, and both his own son and daughter were ig-
norant of the fact that he was a Jew.

At midnight the chief of the family and his visitor
descended into a subterranean passage. There they
met a small society of Jews, the existence of which no
one suspected. The well-known lamp was suspended
from the ceiling. Toward the East stood a box cov-
ered with black velvet, containing the rolls of the Penta-
teuch, and a copy of the Prophets, while upon a table of
bronze were engraved the Ten Commandments. Side
by side with the box was a Jew calendar, containing a
list of the illustrious men among the Jews who with-
out being known as such had played an important part
in the affairs of Spain. In the centre, upon a table
covered with a piece of black marble, were the prayer-
books of the Jews.

There was only one tomb in this whole place.
Obliged to bear the humiliation of being buried in a
Catholic cemetery, and to endure the prayers of the
priest, the Jews succeeded in having the body of their
rabbi escape this profanation, and had it buried there.
At the death of each member of the community the
Jews deposited a small piece of stone near the ven-
erated tomb.

Both the stranger and the Spaniard conversed a
long time in this sanctuary of their common hopes,
and then through a small hole they noticed the day
about to break, and the hour for morning prayers
close at hand. " We must not quit the synagogue
without having raised our hearts toward the God of

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our fathers/' said the Spaniard. The bell of a neigh-
boring conyent struck its silvery and clear notes. A
light movement was heard in the house above. It was
the young girl who hastened to church to be present
at the first mass. Ten years later the same traveller
returned to Spain. But instead of the humble house
of his co-religionist, he found in its place an impos-
ing palace. They sat at the table, and a prayer was
offered in a loud voice. The young girl was now
openly a Jewess.

The Jews have now taken almost exclusive pos-
session of Spain. This explains the reason why
Spain withers from the effects of incessant revolu-
tions.

Among the numberless foreign Jews who wormed
their way into France in 1789, a great many in-
stalled themselves without beating of drums or sound
of trumpets, and lived the life of ordinary mortals.
But when occasion presented itself, the old hatred
against Christianity, which had remained dormant
among .their fathers, was rekindled among the sons,
who are falsely taken to be free-thinkers, but who
have never failed to break down the doors of sanc-
tuaries and otherwise injure our institutions.

A document of 1733 affirms : " The Jews em-
ployed good-looking country girls for servants, whose
honor they violated in order to use them for nurses
to their own children, while the babes born of the
girls were sent away as foundlings."

The Goy, son or daughter of the Goyrn, everything
is created to enrich and amuse the Jew.

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Bordeaux was, however, a very narrow territory
for the Jews. It was Paris that they coveted and
where their ambition centred. In 1767 they tried to
take advantage of a decree permitting foreigners to
join the great body of native tradesmen. The mer-
chants of Paris, one and all, energetically protested
against the admission of Jews. They protested vehe-
mently against the equality sought to be established
between Jews and foreigners. The foreigner is open
to ideas common to all civilized people. The Jew
belongs to no class of civilized beings. He is a pil-
ferer.

The petition of the merchants was couched in the
following terms : " The admission of this people into
a well-organized, law-abiding society threatens to be
dangerous. The Jews can well be compared to wasps
who introduce themselves into hives in order to kill the
bees, and then open their stomachs and suck the honey
from their entrails. It is utterly impossible to attrib-
ute to the Jews qualities befitting a law-abiding citi-
zen, for they are nowhere reared in the principles of
what may be termed legitimate authority. They be-
lieve every government to be an usurpation of their
rights. They consider all values as being rightfully
theirs, and the subjects of all countries as having
robbed them of their possessions. There is a peculiar
philosophy current in our day, which seeks to justify
the. Jews by reason of the trials they have undergone,
trials imposed upon them by the Christian sovereigns
of Europe. We must either regard the Jews as guilty,
or reproach the sovereigns, perhaps the predecessors

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of your majesty, for a cruelty belonging to the most
barbarous centuries."

The merchants of the eighteenth century were less
stupid than those of the present day, who allow them-
selves to be driven from their homes, to make room for
thieves who never cease to plot and rob those who fool-
ishly permit the Jew to be established among them.

This celebrated document of the merchants seems,
as it were, the last will of the old type of merchant,
so upright, so conscientious, so foreign to all the ways
of shameful effrontery always employed by the Jews
in the transaction of business, and which made every
city in Europe to be looked upon by the tourist as a
true den of brigands.

All strangers who visit Paris are bored to death by
the Jews. They run about like particles of quick-
silver. They are on the lookout, like a hunter for
his prey. They disappear and, quick as thought, they
reappear to meet in some frequented thoroughfare. *

* The following account, taken from one of the New York
papers, explains the methods pursued by the Jews in acquiring
in a few years vast sums of money, while they bring ruin to
all their competitors. It concerns the disappearance of the
Jew, Isidore Cohnfeld, a large dealer in ostrich feathers, and
a reputed millionaire.

He lived in good style in his handsome residence, 56 West
Fifty-seventh Street, and owned the celebrated trotter, Maxey
Cobbe, the trotting mare Minnie, and other road and turf ani-
mals. His method of business was in all respects peculiar to the
Jew. He purchased largely in the London market, i. e., he had
large consignments sent to him from Gentiles and sold them in
New York at prices which swamped ail competitors. Recently his

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 97

The document further stated : ic Fortunes are rarely
made rapidly in commerce, when practised in good
faith, as it ought to be. The Jews in a short space of
time amass enormous fortunes. Can it be that they
arrive so rapidly to a high degree of prosperity by extra-
ordinary business capacity ? . . . The Jews can-
not boast of having in any way benefited the countries
where they have been tolerated. All work demanding
constant and laborious application is shunned by them.
But to profit by the discoveries of others, to counter-
feit the productions of their competitors, to exercise
every sort of usury, to receive stolen goods, to buy
from everybody, even from a thief or an assassin, to
introduce into a country forbidden goods, to offer
to unhappy debtors resources that bring about their
ruin, to engage in every low act of jobbery and extor-
tion, are the means constantly resorted to by the Jews,
to further their worldly interests.

"To allow a single Jew to be established in a city
would be to leave the door open to the whole race ;
would be to array against every merchant the forces
of a powerful corporation that would not fail to crush
the business of every firm and consequently of the en-
tire city. The most vigorous laws that could be
enacted, the combined vigilance of magistrates and of

auctions increased in frequency, and a well-known feather im-
porter remarked that some goods had been sold at a figure below
that which Mr. Cohnf eld gave for them. On Saturday last it was
reported that Mr. Cohnf eld had been absent from his store for
two days, and on Monday it was reported that he had left the
city.

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the police, nothing, in fact, would be able to prevent
the exercise of their cupidity and of their rapacity. "

The document ends with these words : "It was once
asked of a philosopher whence he came ? He answered
that he was a cosmopolitan, that is to say, a citizen of the
world. Another said: ' I prefer my family to myself,
my country to my family, the world to my country/
Let the defenders of the Jews make no mistake. The
Jews are not cosmopolitans. They are citizens of no
country. They prefer themselves to all the rest of
mankind, they are the enemies of man, whom they
aim to enslave."

This document made a deep impression, and on the
7th of February, 1777, the Jews were refused admis-
sion into Paris. The Jews engaged one Lacretelle to
defend them, but they chose a singular defender, for
their advocate thus wrote about them :

" The Jews, who are accustomed to the scorn of
everybody, make their way in the world by adopting
only the most base and corrupt methods. A Jew
never hesitates to sacrifice his reputation if he can by
so doing acquire even the smallest sum of money.
His whole art consists of the art of cheating. Usury
is his arm. It is a monster that in silence and in
darkness disguises itself in a thousand forms ; contin-
ually calculating the hours, the minutes that increase
his gains. . . *"

Finally, toward the end of the eighteenth century,
the Jews after persistent efforts succeeded in worming
their way into Paris, where, however, their existence
was very precarious. They were obliged every month

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 99

to haye their permits to remain renewed, or their de-
parture could be demanded at once. A single inci-
dent will suffice to give an idea of their miserable ex-
istence. They were not allowed to haye a cemetery of
their own.

They interred their dead in the back yard of a mis-
erable inn, in a spot called La Villette, and paid the
inn-keepei* fifty francs for permission to inter the
body of eyery distinguished Jew. The proprietor piti-
lessly exploited these pariahs, insulted them in their
dearest beliefs, had oxen and horses killed and skinned
on the ground he allowed for their burial, mixed the
flesh and bones of the animals with their dead bodies,
troubled them in their funeral ceremonies, and finally
threatened no longer to receive their dead.

What a contrast between that time and the pres-
ent ! Behold these miserable men who furtiyely
wormed their way into an obscure corner, without a
place to weep or to offer the last prayer of the widow
and of the orphan ! . . . H Oh, Eternal Eock of
the world, God who liyest and foreyer existest, Thou
who art full of pity, Thou who pardonest the offences
and effacest the iniquities, I implore Thee for the soul
of him who has just died." Behold them to-day !
They are the financial despots of eyery city through
the streets of which they glide like shadows.

They own palaces, they rule the Goy.

This burial-ground of bygone days still exists in
Paris in Flandre Street, ifo. 44. In the back yard,
which looks like a farm-yard, hens, turkeys, and
geese wade in a pool of murky water. The people

100 TEE ORIGINAL ME. JACOBS.

living in this neighborhood do not know even of the
existence of the cemetery. . . .

ISTo spot is more suitable for meditation. The
black wall around it crumbles piece by piece. The
grass grows dry and thin in this sterile enclosure, in
which here and there a few scrawny trees cast their
shadows. The humidity has eaten into the tombstones
covered with Hebraic characters and has rendered
most of the inscriptions illegible. The place is now
used as a receptacle for garbage, and in the corners
are heaps of empty bottles and bits of old iron. Amid
the scanty verdure a few inscriptions are still to be
seen.

"Here reposes the well-beloved Judith Delvallee
Silveyra, thirty-six years old, born at Pantin, near
Paris, on the 9th of Tristry, 5563d year of the crea-
tion of the world."

One is moved almost to pity to think of those clan-
destine funerals of bygone days. True, the Jews
have also been insulting to our dead the moment they
in their turn were masters ; still one is moved, and
involuntarily takes a keen interest in their efforts to
obtain a tomb in that France that in later years was
destined to be theirs. Not till the 31st of March,
1785, were the Jews permitted to buy at Montrouge a
piece of ground to receive their dead. It continued
to be their cemetery until the year 1804.

Louis XVI. sought to improve the condition of the
Jews, and the following interesting anecdote is re-
lated :

" One day in the year 1787 Louis XVI., happy,

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 101

smiling and in good humor, went hunting, surrounded
with all the splendid pomp which accompanied even
to the chase the ruler of the most beautiful kingdom
upon the earth.

"Suddenly, in the environs of Versailles, a place
which to this day awakens in one's mind an idea of
greatness and of melancholy majesty akin to the im-
pression of the setting sun, the king saw four old
men of strange appearance carrying a coffin covered
with a rough piece of cloth. A small number of
people of Oriental type, hooked nose and humble
mien, followed. Upon the order of the king, the
captain of the guards accosted the funeral train, and
informed his majesty that they were Jews transport-
ing the body of one of their co-religionists to the
cemetery at Montrouge. . . .

" Pity took possession of the honest heart of the
king who, although of a weak nature, was never
known to commit a wicked or cruel act. The re-
membrance of those poor Jews whom he met on his
way haunted him in his palace where he ruled in the
splendor of his power. He summoned his Prime
Minister and won him over to his generous ideas. A
commission was nominated with authority to devise
means to better the condition of the Jews, and a
number of prominent Israelites were invited to assist
the commission in their work.

"This king, who busied himself with the misfor-
tunes of others, had already been doomed by his im-
placable enemies, the revolutionists, to the scaffold, and
his body — the body of the Christian king who first of

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all kings interested himself in the Jews, was mutilated,
and was delivered to the Jews without even being
covered with a piece of rough cloth, and by them it
was cast into a ditch full of burning lime in Anjou
Street."

Did the Jews of those times feel any sorrow at the
fate of their friend, the unfortunate monarch ? The
Jew newspapers contained only brutal allusions, and
in recent years during the anniversary of the execu-
tion of the King, the paper La Lanterne of the Jew
Mayer, and La Nation of the Jew Dreyfus, announced
that "the happy event" will be celebrated with con-
certs and other amusements.

During those times the Jew, though admitted no-
where, was to be found everywhere. The strength of
the Jew then was his apparent weakness, just as his
weakness to-day is his aj3parent strength, so cynically
displayed — a seemingly colossal strength, but which
rests upon no solid foundation, for a few clicks of the
telegraph will any day suffice to confiscate his un-
righteously acquired riches.

Marie-Therese was the implacable enemy of the
Jews. She renewed against them the laws of former
years. She compelled them to wear a long beard and
to have a small piece of yellow cloth sewed upon the
rio'ht arm of their coat sleeve. On the 22d of Decern-
ber, 1744, the following royal edict was promulgated
at Prague and throughout the kingdom of Bohemia :

" 1st. For various reasons I have decided no longer
to tolerate the Jews in my Kingdom of Bohemia, I
therefore demand that on the last day of January,

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103

1745, all Jews depart from the city of Prague, and
if any shall be found, the soldiery are hereby com-
manded to drive them hence.

" 2d. That ample time, however, may be given
them to arrange their affairs and to dispose of their
effects, a month will be granted during which they
may remain in my kingdom.

i( 3d. At the expiration of the above time all Jews
must quit the Kingdom of Bohemia."

How powerful the Jews were at that time, and with
how great a force they exercised their authority, which
since the foundation of the Alliance Israelite Univer-
selle manifests itself daily with constantly increasing
freedom and insolence, is evidenced by the earnestness
with which certain kingdoms in Europe intervened
in their behalf. Baron Van Barmenie, the ambassa-
dor of Holland, was requested to defend their cause.
The English plenipotentiary, Thomas Eobinson, ad-
dressed also a note to Marie-Therese. They suc-
ceeded, however, only in obtaining a postponement of
the decree of banishment to the end of March. On
that day 28,000 Israelites had to quit Bohemia.

Efforts to revoke the edict were renewed, and owing
to new and repeated representations and remonstrances
entered into at the same time by Poland, Denmark,
and Sweden, the Jews finally succeeded in their efforts
and were allowed to remain in Bohemia, The Jews in
Holland and Belgium struck a medallion to commem-
orate the joyful event.

As soon as a favorable opportunity presented itself
the Jews pitilessly avenged themselves upon Marie-

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Antoinette for the rebuffs and heavy taxation imposed
upon them by Marie-Therese.

Never since the Crucifixion has severer torture been
inflicted on a human being than was inflicted on An-
toinette by the revolutionists, goaded on by the Jews,
who always spoke of her as the Austrian.

Soon after the abolition of the decree against the
Jews in Bohemia, another decree appeared in France
permitting the Jews to re-enter France.

The Jew was in France !

This news circulated from city to city, everywhere
reawakening hope, even in the most distant ghettos,
and giving cause for thanksgiving in all the temples
and synagogues.

On the 21st of October, 1793, a Hebrew song was
sung in the synagogue of Metz, to the air of the Mar-
seillaise, proclaiming the triumph of Israel.

The ancient Cabala * was finished. The new Cab-
ala began. The Jew was no longer the accursed sor-
cerer whom Michelet depicted performing his witch-
craft in the shades of night. He had transformed
himself. He could now operate in the ful] light of day.
The pen of the Hungarian Jew journalist replaced
the wand of the magician. The magical mirror was

* Cabala — a mysterious kind of science among the Jewish
rabbis. This science consists chiefly in understanding the com-
bination of certain letters, words and numbers, which are al-
leged to be significant. Every letter, word and number is
supposed to contain a mystery, and the Cabalists even pretend
to foretell events by the study of this science.

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 105

broken. To the fanatical apparitions of former years
illusions of a peculiarly strange nature succeeded —
illusions unceasingly feeding the poor dupes with the
deceptive image of a happiness that constantly flees.

Why should any one blame Shylock, who asked for
only a pound of human flesh ? The Jew of to-day
does not care for a pound of Christian flesh. He
wants the entire body, aye, he wants the bodies of
hundreds of thousands of Gentiles who rot upon
battle-fields fought solely to benefit Israel. *

What are a few ducats ? It is millions that hence-
forth the Goy is going to sweat. The J ews now handle
gold by the shovelful. They found banks, institu-
tions of credit, invite subscriptions to loans of all sorts,
national loans, foreign loans, loans of war, loans of
peace, loans of Europe, Asia, Turkey, Mexico, Eussia,
Honduras, Columbia, etc.

This transformation is complete, and this time the
magical charm has entirely succeeded. By a singular
hallucination this serf, this pariah, in a word, the
Jew, who has been more of a slave than were the beasts
of burden of Pharaoh, considers himself to-day the
most free, the most enviable and cleverest of men.
The outcasts of old are now our Kothschilds, our

*Le Play has noticed this transformation. " New influ-
ences," he says, "bear to-day in bringing about the scourge of
war. War is brought about by certain manipulators of money
who engage in gambling operations throughout the European
exchanges, found scandalous fortunes upon loans contracted
seemingly for expenses of war, or for the payment of excessive
ransom imposed by the conqueror."

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Seiigmans, our Hausemans, our Wormsers, our Op«
penheiins, our Kathans, our Henriques, our Schenks,
our De Cordovas, etc.!

What has this transformation cost ? Formerly an
American, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, whether
a laborer in the fields or in the cities, was happy and
peaceful as long as his associates were of the same race,
as long as there were no Jews around. At eventide
the peasants danced, accompanied by their bagpipes ;
mechanics had their fraternal corporations and meet-
ings in which feeling allusions were made to the
memory of a dead companion.

Look now at the workman of our large cities. He
listens to the Jew. who like the serpent of old advises
him to revolt against the existing state of affairs. He
bends like the Jews of the pyramids over his work.
He has become a slave, very like the slave of ancient
times, who, according to Aristotle, was but a living
machine.

Is it necessary to arouse this human machine ? Is it
necessary that these victims whom the Jews have taught
that there is no heaven, should free themselves, if but
for a moment, from the frightful reality that weighs
them down ? The Jew offers them burning alcohol.
Instead of innocent beverages, the Jew offers adulte-
rated mixtures, mixtures which give the victims the
delirium tremens at the end of a few years, but for a
time galvanize the dormant organization.

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THE JEWS DURING THE REVOLUTION AND THE FIRST

EMPIRE.

The Jew during the Ee volution was constantly on
the move. He planned and connived in order to exert
a powerful influence in a society the framework of
which was, as it were, now in ruins. The occasion
was favorable. The scaffold had been erected that
took off the heads of many of the most honest and the
most intelligent men of that eventful period. The
Jew had no longer to fear the vigilance of which he
was the object in that old society where young and
old knew one another from having prayed together in
the same church, and were besides held together by a
thousand traditional ties.

From its very beginning the Eevolution had, like
the present Republic of France, which the Jews have
organized, the character of an invasion. The native
French element had disappeared, like to-day, from
the Republic, and the Jews seized upon the important
positions and terrorized the country, as they do to-
day.

" All the turbulent elements/' says Forneron, "all
the outlaws had centred in France." Switzerland, for
example, sent Marat, Hulin, Claviere, all leaders of
murderous bands. These outlaws were welcomed, like
brothers, by the Jews in Paris, who now claimed to
direct the destinies of France and of the human kind.

Who has not heard of Marat ? The counterfeit of
his repulsive figure is to be seen in Madame Tussaud's
establishment in London. Marat, who was afflicted

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with leprosy, a disease peculiarly Jewish, had for ad-
viser and inseparable companion the notorious Jew,
Pereyra. The true name of Marat was Mara. The
family was expelled from Spain. They went first to
Sardinia and thence to Switzerland, where, being un-
able to openly practise Judaism, they embraced Protes-
tantism. Marat was, by birth and instinct, a true son
of Judah, and a prominent figure in doing the work
of the guillotine. The nature of Marat could not de-
ceive the careful observer. It was the Jews' neurosis,
K~o Gentile would advocate in London, Berlin and
St. Petersburg, as Marat did, the killing of 200,000
people without distinction of age or sex. JsTo Gentile
would dare advise it. The Jew alone dares to counsel
it and to do it.

This unique audacity, this unparalleled impudence
which we meet with in all the enterprises of the Jews,
comes of the venom instilled centuries ago into their
blood. The religion that teaches the Jews that they
are superior to all other men, that they must annihi-
late everything foreign to them, and that everything
upon the earth belongs to them, is the source of the
delirious conceptions peculiar to the race. It is the
basis of their theories and the cause of their seemingly
incomprehensible aberrations.

The common phrase, " the revolting Marat/' does not
half express the idea sought to be conveyed. .No doubt
his mouth — in which the lips were hardly discernible,
being contracted as if by lockjaw — was ferocious,
but his eyes were beautiful. True, they sparkle with
fury in the Marat of Tussaud, but they are mild

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 109

and soft in the pictures painted by Boze and
Madame Alais. Examine carefully at the Musee
Carnavlet the bust of Marat, and you Trill perceive
the pure type of the Jew. a hallucinatory a victim of
neuropathy. You will discover, as in the case of
Eobespierre, of Guiteau, the assassin, whose ancestors
were French Jews, and of many other actors of like
tragic scenes, that want of symmetry in the two sides
of the face that betrays the maniac.

The wax figure taken almost immediately after the
fatal wound inflicted upon Marat by Charlotte Cor-
day, which figure is to be seen in Madame Tussaud's
Musee, gives the same impression. Here we have the
hand with its tapering fingers, a hand not of a mur-
derer who strikes from instinct, but of a methodical
scoundrel, of one who acts from theory and cold de-
liberation. Death has spread suddenly upon the face
the domineering nature, the basis of the Jew's tem-
perament, moroseness mingled with sadness.

No doubt there were other persons besides the Jews
who at that time denounced and sent many a good
man to the scaffold. But if a patient research were
to be made among the official archives of the period,
if one would inquire into the time certain persons
and families entered France, the Jew would occupy
a prominent place, and a hereditary hatred for Chris-
tianity would be traced to families of pure Semitic
origin.

The first act of the Jews, who were now anxious
to prove themselves worthy of their emancipation,
was to steal the crown jewels. The sight of these

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treasures, patiently accumulated during generations,
and which consisted of royal crowns, cups offered by
Suger, jewels given by Richelieu, magnificent and
glorious souvenirs, divided hastily on the bank of the
Seine, secreted under ground or thrown into a pool of
water, dragged into the vilest resorts, concealed in
tatters, is the very image of the brilliant past of the
unfortunate France, now delivered to a horde of Jews.

The theft of the crown jewels nourished for a long
time the commerce of the German Jews.

The bulletin of the criminal tribunal of those times
says : " One of the first persons found guilty of the
theft of the crown jewels was a Jew named Louis
Lyre, a native of London, twenty-eight years old,
ostensibly a merchant. . . . He was found guilty
of having participated in the robberies committed
during the nights of the 11th, loth and 15th of Sep-
tember, and to have sold in the course of the ssme
month 'to a certain Moyse Trenel pearls and dia-
monds, his share of the theft. He made a will on the
13th of October. 1792, and at half -past ten in the
evening of the same clay he suffered death, displaying
a courage and a coolness worthy of a better cause. "

Another Jew, Delcampo, alias Deschamps, was also
executed.

All the Jews in Paris were implicated in the rob-
'bery of the crown jewels. " The crown jewels," says
Drumont, "have never been in luck either with the
Eepublicans or the Jews. The first Republic allowed
them to be stolen. Under the present Republic the
Jew Lockroy entered into an agreement with certain

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gentlemen with hooked noses who congregate in the
basement of the cafe 'De Suede/ to pass a law au-
thorizing the sale of all these souvenirs of bygone
glory."

It was the Jews also who at that time organized the
systematic pillaging of the churches and the destruc-
tion of all the masterpieces inspired by faith and ex-
ecuted by genius. Those stormy years were admira-
bly suited for the Jew to satisfy both his hatred and
his cupidity. The silver of the churches passed into
his rapacious hands. The public treasury received no
benefit whatever from his wholesale spoliations.

"The Jews often bought entire churches with a
handful of assignats (paper money of the French Ee-
public), and when tranquillity was restored they let
them to the Christians at an exorbitant rental. France
was their prey, and Capefigue, in his History of Great
Financial Operations, thus describes the situation :

" The Jews entered Paris like hungry wolves. At
first they were timid and ostensibly engaged only in
selling second-hand clothes, cheap wares, and in
mildly exercising their old trade of usury. They were
not yet sufficiently strong to establish banks, which
were in the hands of the Genoese. They were satisfied
with 'buying and bidding in, in connivance with auc-
tioneers, the furniture of castles, the relics of the
churches, and with lending to the old aristocratic
families that were banished a few louis on good values,
and at an appalling interest. . . . Left alone,
in a short time they will be masters of the industrial
and financial markets,"

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How true the words of Oapefigue ! Wherever a
Jew has established a bank he has changed the ex-
isting order of things. "Whenever the Jew enters into
a business transaction with a Gentile his first thought
is to swindle and ruin him. The greatest financial
catastrophes that have occurred in Europe have been
the work of the Jew. America, by reason of its vast
extent of territory and exhaustless resources, has not
as yet keenly felt the wounds inflicted by these fellows.
But hardly a day passes that we do not read in the
newspapers accounts of their peculiar operations.
To conceal their tracks they often, by mutual arrange-
ment, institute suits against one another, while their
aim is to ruin the Christian. Thousands of examples
could be cited to prove the truth of this statement,
but one will suffice, which we copy from the New
York Times of November 8, 1887 :

"The Fifth National Bank in St. Louis closed its
door at 1.15 P. M. to-day. I. B. Eosenthal, Joseph
Specht and Marcus Wolfe are directors of the bank
[no comments are needed as to their origin]. Marcus
Wolfe [poor fellow] brought two suits of attachment
against I. B. Eosenthal, aggregating $71,000, and it is
thought that Eosenthal was indebted to the bank to a
considerable amount. The bank is situated at 700
North Broadway, and has a capital stock of $390,000.
The usual deposits amounted to about $400,000. On
Friday they had to meet a heavy run, and as the de-
positors continued to withdraw their funds the bank
closed its doors a few minutes before one o'clock.
Henry Oderstolz [another one of the seed of Jacob] is

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president, and C. C. Crecilius [of the same stock]
cashier. . . . Within the last month the stock of
the bank has sold at 105, and this morning it found
a ready market at 95. "

The Jew of 1800 was less accomplished than the
Jew of to-day. He was half brigand and half banker,
or rather, he began to be a brigand before he estab-
lished himself as a banker. To illustrate the above
it is necessary only to recall the career of the famous
Jew Michael, the assassin, whose granddaughters
married dukes and princes, without, however, obliter-
ating the sinister reputation which to this day clings
to them. Michael enticed to his castle in the sub-
urbs of Paris a family of noble French exiles, whom
he strangled in order to obtain the money and valu-
ables they carried. Acquitted by a jury which he had
bribed, notwithstanding the overwhelming proofs,
which have disappeared together with the briefs of
the trial, he was none the less looked upon as guilty
by the public.

In the mean time the Jews were watching the polit-
ical horizon. They waited for a Cromwell, who was
so favorable to them. He came.

Was Napoleon of Semitic origin? Disraeli said he
was, and the author of Judaism in France is of the
same opinion. It is certain that the Balearic Isles
and Corsica served as a refuge to many Jews banished
from Spain and Italy. These exiles, it would seem,
were converted to Christianity, and, as has been
the case in Spain, they took the names of Orsini,
Colonna, and Bonaparte, Christians that served them

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as godfathers. The historian, Michelet, has three
times spoken of this matter. "I said/' he says
in his Nineteenth Century, "that an Englishman
sought to make people believe that Bonaparte "was of
Jewish extraction; As Corsica contained formerly a
vast number of Jews who settled there from Africa,
it seems that Bonaparte may have belonged to the
Moors more than to the Italians.'5

Napoleon was just the man to act the important
part that the Jews expected of him. From the very
start the Jewish capitalists adopted him. All the
wealthy Jews of the time may be said to have been in
silent partnership with him during his first expe-
dition into Italy, when the treasury of the country
was empty. His early exploits were greatly exag-
gerated, and the enthusiasm inspired by his achieve-
ments having been fanned to fever heat by the Jews,
wron for him the entire country. We have had a
repetition of this sort of excitement in the case of
G-ambetta, who, although really dishonest, swayed all
France with his eloquence, still France looked on him,
for a time at least, as the predestined man.

Napoleon acquitted himself of all obligations he
had toward the Jews, for he granted them the free
exercise of religion and the full enjoyment of political
rights.

A great council, composed of the most prominent
rabbis, took place on the 4th of February, 1807.
Its sittings lasted until the 4th of March of the same
year. This council was -well calculated to awe the
imagination of the descendants of a race so long pro-

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scribed. For the first time since the destruction of
the temple a Sanhedrim collected the members of
that wandering family. The representatives of Israel
were moved by the solemnity of this spectacle. One
of their first acts had truly something noble in its
character, altogether foreign to everything expected
from that race.

They recalled the long persecutions, the long years
that had passed — years replete with keen sufferings.
They remembered that for years only one man had
spoken in their behalf, had unceasingly declared that
we ought to respect the liberty of their conscience,
and had set the example of tolerance by according to
the Jews in his kingdom better treatment than they
had had elsewhere. This man, always the same in
doctrine, always the same in his goodness, was the
vicar of Christ.

The popes have always accorded to the Jews their
august protection. In the seventh century St. Gregory
protected them throughout the entire world. Alex-
ander II. warmly congratulated the bishops of Spain
for having taken under their protection the persecuted
Israelites. Innocent II. and Alexander III. took
active measures in their behalf ; Gregory IX. inter-
posed for them in France, England and Spain, and
forbade, under penalty of excommunication, any one
from troubling their feasts. Clement YI. granted
them an asylum at Avignon ; Xicholas II. wrote to
the Inquisition not to force the Jews to embrace
Christianity, and Clement XIII. granted them j>er-
mission to bring up their children as they wished, a

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kindness which the Jews repaid by stealing the chil-
dren of the Christians as soon as they were able to do
so.

After many years of persecution the Jews, at last
finding themselves left in peace, wished to thank the
pontiffs, who had so often interested themselves in
their affairs and made themselves the advocates of the
proscribed race. These thanks the members of the
Sanhedrim expressed in an address, which is certainly
an honorable page in Jewish history.

The address was as follows: " The Israelites of
the Empire of France and of the Kingdom of Italy,
at their Synod held on the 30th of last March,
penetrated with gratitude for the successive benefits
that the Christian clergy have rendered in past cen-
turies to the Israelites of the various States of Eu-
rope—

"And full of gratitude for the welcome that the
several pontiffs have extended to the Israelites in
various countries, when barbarity, prejudice and ig-
norance incited the people to persecute and expel the
Jews from the bosom of society —

" Decree,

" That the expression of these sentiments be re-
corded in the proceedings of this day, that they may
forever remain as an authentic testimony of the grati-
tude of the Jews for the benefits conferred upon pre-
ceding generations by the Christian clergy."

It behooves us to compare the address of the 5th of
February, 1807, with the account of the infamies
committed by the Jews of Eome, as related by two

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converted Israelites, who subsequently became priests,
the Abbes Leman, in a pamphlet entitled : Letter
to the Israelites throughout the world, respecting the
conduct of their co-religionists in Rome during the
captivity of Pius IX. in the Vatican.

"On the 20th of September, 1870/' relate the
Brothers Leman, "the Pontifical Zouaves, defenders of
Kome, received orders from Pius IX. no longer to con-
tinue their heroic defence. Thereupon they left the
ramparts and assembled, sad and isolated, in the Vati-
can. -But as they were crossing the bridge of St.
Ange, numerous bands of Jews heaped insults upon
them, forcibly took away the packages containing
their travelling outfits, and pretending that robbery
was not their actual motive, but that it was done for
political reasons, cast the packages over the bridge
into the Tiber. Below, however, were their boatmen,
who collected into their boats everything thrown from
above. The Jews afterward pillaged the barracks
and took away arms, uniforms, even the furniture,
and the planks. Last year, 1872, acts of abomination
and ferocity were again committed by the Jews — acts
that beggar description. They cursed and struck the
peacefully disposed Christians as they were leaving
the church ; turned sacred things into ridicule, in-
sulted the priests, soiled the images of the Madonna,
and threw into the crowd balls of lead, which resulted
in the shedding of blood/'

Only a year or two ago did we not see the Jew Levy,
author of a blackmailing pamphlet against the Pope,
declare that the anti-clerical congress, which he had

118 THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

organized, would meet next year in Borne, in order
more keenly to defy the august captive in the Vatican?

This is the way the Jew generally returns favors.

In 1807 the hearts of the Israelites overflowed with
gratitude. The thanks voted in Hebrew to Napoleon
seem instinct with the breath of biblical poetry.

(i Napoleon, all kings have vanished before thee.
Their wisdom has been bewildered, and they have
reeled like one intoxicated. At the battle of Auster-
litz thou hast shattered the forces of two emperors.
Death marched before thee. Thou hast marked his
path, and never once did death turn from it. The
past generations that death has devoured, that hell
has swallowed, at the report of thy exploits have
exclaimed : e Among warriors, among heroes, never
has one resembled thee/ God has chosen Napoleon
to govern his people. Napoleon alone has done as
many great deeds as have all the heroes of past cen-
turies."

The Jewish Synod advised the Jews to conform to
the laws of the country, and to do everything in their
power to win the esteem and the good- will of their
fellow citizens. Vain words ! The Synod did not
succeed in changing the Jewish temperament. Noth-
ing in the world's history has ever made any impres-
sion upon the J ew.

The struggle against Judaism was carried on even
during the reign of Napoleon, but it was carried on
unperceived; on account of the terrible events which
were then crowrding upon one another.

Through a phenomenon that will be the perpetual

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119

astonishment of history, Napoleon, the little sub-
lieutenant of artillery, occupied the place of chief of
an empire, an empire impregnated with the spirit of
absolute authority, impregnated with the traditions
belonging to hereditary monarchy. This parvenu, we
are forced to acknowledge it, was the last sovereign
who truly governed France.

Eminent men of that period acknowledged that it
was wrong to grant to the Jews equality of rights.
No one would have found fault had Napoleon sought
merely to ameliorate the condition of the Jew ; to
have been inspired, for instance, with that Eoman
wisdom of old, which distinguished between the
Eoman citizen and the public slaves of the Eoman
citizen. The Eornans allowed their slaves the free
enjoyment of their property. They even allowed
them to display an arrogant luxury, but half of their
property, after their death, belonged to the State.
Such a law applied to the wealthy class among the
Jews, to families like the Eothschilds, the Ephrussi, or
Baron Hirsch, who reduced Eoumania almost to pau-
perism, would give excellent results. It would cause
to revert to the public treasury part of the ill-gotten
gains of these usurers, without, at the same time, pre-
venting this race from exercising their vocation.
Even during the most ill-fated period -of Eome's his-
tory, the freedman was not admitted into the curia
of a provincial city. The Eoman people never be-
lieved that a foreigner, even though naturalized, could
be the equal of the sons ot the old citizens who had
founded Eome's greatness.

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At the time when equal rights were granted to the
Jews, an illustrious Frenchman, whose lofty and se-
rene intelligence was proof against eyery fanatical in-
fluence, expressed himself clearly upon this question
in a document of not more than thirty pages, which is
a masterpiece of impartiality and good sense.

4 'The Assembly," he said, "has thought that in order to
render the Jews good citizens, it would suffice to have them par-
ticipate, without special conditions being imposed upon them,
in all the rights enjoyed by the natives. Experience has unfor-
tunately proved that if the Assembly has not lacked in philoso-
phy, it has lacked in forethought, and that in certain cases new
laws cannot be promulgated without detriment.

" The error arises in this case from the fact that the Assembly
has not clearly understood the suitableness of the Jew to enjoy
full civil rights. The Jews formerly had their territory and their
government. But from the moment they were dispersed they
began to wander over the globe, seeking a retreat but not
a country. They have existed among all nations without
ever uniting with any. This order of things is owing to the
nature and strength of the Jewish institutions. Various nations
may have one common object, as, for instance, that of main-
taining their liberty. But each nation has an object which is
peculiarly its own. Aggrandizement was that of Home, war
that of Lacedsemon, letters that of Athens, commerce that of
Carthage, and religion that of the Jews. . . . Religion or-
dinarily is related to things which affect the conscience. But
among the Jews religion embraces everything which constitutes
and moulds society. To this end the Jews form everywhere a
people within a people. They are neither Frenchmen nor
Germans. They are Jews, and Jews they will remain. . . .

"It follows that it would not have been unwise or unjust to
have submitted to exceptional laws this kind of a corporation
which, by its institutions, its principles, and its customs, has
remained constantly separated from society at large,"

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The Jews of those times had not yet entered upon
those gigantic financial movements which they said
66 would be the glory of the nineteenth century/' and
which movements consist in causing the gold of the
universe to be circulated and ' ' scooped in." The
Jews of those times were satisfied to follow their an-
cestral and time-honored business — usury — and freed
of all fetters, and armed with equal rights, they prac-
tised it without let or hindrance.

Unhappy Alsace writhed in the grasp of these vam-
pires. She prayed, supplicated, cried, agitated, and
finally threatened. The honest Kellermann, who had
led so many heroic charges, felt his courage abandon-
ing him before the wave of German Jews who seized
upon the unfortunate province which he governed.
Driven to despair, he poured his sorrows into the
bosom of the Emperor, to whom he wrote in 1806 :
" The usury of the Jews is frightful. They repudiate
the receipts for loans returned to them, which receipts
I myself know to have been duly signed by them,
averring that they are forgeries." The Emperor, not-
withstanding-his many services to Judaism, was now
forced to issue the following decree on the 17th of
March, 1808 :

"Henceforth, and beginning with the 1st of July,
no Jew will be allowed to engage in business of what-
soever sort or nature, without first having received an
official permission from the governor of his district,
which permission will not be granted but upon strict
examination and careful investigation, and only when
it has been fully ascertained that the said Jew has

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not practised usury, or has not been engaged in anv
illegal traffic. 99

Besides the above decree Xapoleon issued another,
requiring that as many of the Jews as had no family
name or a first name should at once take one. He for-
bade them to have for a family name one from the
Old Testament^ or to take the name of a city, for
which the Jews had a great fondness.

A commission was appointed with orders to give
names to the Jews, and the Jews succeeded in bribing
the petty officials, who were appointed to see that this
decree was carried out, by paying them a small sum
in consideration for which the commission gave them
a beautiful naine, as of a bird, a flower, or a name of
good omen. The Jews called themselves the evening
breeze, or the morning perfume. For instance,, the
name Rosenthal means valley of roses ; Wohlgeruch,
good odor j Edelstein, precious stone; Golclader. a
vein of gold. Those who refused to pay were given
ridiculous or disagreeable names, as, for instance,
Galgenvogel, a jail Jnrd ; Saufer, drunkard; TTein-
glaSj wineglass.

The most common name anions: the Jews is that
of Mayer. It is very ancient, and figures both in the
Old Testament and in the Talmud. It pleases the
Jews, for it evokes in them the image of something
that shines. The true name is Meier, meaning: re-
splendent, brilliant, and it comes from a word mean-
ing light Cohn, Kahn, Kohn, Cahen, Cahun are
very ancient derivatives of the Hebrew word Cohen,
meaning a priest of the family of Aaron. The first

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names prevalent among the Jews are generally trans-
lations of Hebrew names. Maurice corresponds to
Moses, Isidore to Isaac, Edward to Aaron, James to
Jacob.

The Jews, in consequence of the new measures
adoped against them, limited themselves to uttering
doleful complaints. But the divorce, as it were, was
complete between them and the Emperor. Napoleon,
leaving aside the question of his origin, was in many
respects the opposite of the typical Jew. In a dis-
cussion before the Council of State he said : " No-
body complains of the Protestants or of the Catholics.
People always complain of the Jews. The fact is,
that the evil done by the Jews does not come from
individuals, but from the very constitution of the
people. They are the grasshoppers and the worms
that ravage France. "

Beginning with 1810, the Jew, who up to that time
had sustained Napoleon, now that he had nothing
further to expect from him, took side with his enemies.
The mighty Emperor had henceforth opposed to him
that mysterious money force that no one can success-
fully oppose, not even a Napoleon.

Judaism, which is unequalled in its power to push
forward, to extol and to launch any form of enter-
prise,, is likewise unequalled in its power to destroy,
to undermine, to sap and to ruin. "When the Jew is
an enemy, be it to the chief of an empire or to a pri-
vate person, to a journalist or to an artist, each feels
himself suddenly surrounded by a thousand Lilipntian
wires which impede him in every step he may take.

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The enemy of the Jew is crossed and thwarted on all
sides, as Disraeli so well expressed it, Traduced, dis-
honored,- demoralized, he does not know which way to
turn, nothing succeeds, and he does not understand
the reason of his repeated failures.

To defy this occult power, before which even a Bis-
marck retreated, there needs upright men who have
meditated upon the words of Christ, " Blessed are
they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake : for
theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."'

ISTo doubt Napoleon's expedition to Russia contrib-
uted to his downfall. But sooner or later the finan-
cial Jewish coalition would have ruined him. The
future banker of the Holy Alliance, Rothschild,
displayed, when the catastrophe neared, unparalleled
activity.

When evening fell upon "Waterloo, when the Em-
peror tried in vain to penetrate the last square, one of
the Rothschilds who watched at Brussels was imme-
diately informed of the defeat. This information came
from the Jews who followed the army, and who did
so in order to kill outright the wounded soldiers, and
to rob their bodies. Were he to arrive first in Eng-
land, he could make an immense sum of money, esti-
mated by some at £20,000,000. He ran like a deer
to Ostencl, but a frightful tempest well-nigh rendered
the passage across impossible. Perplexed for a mo-
ment at the waves which roared with fury, the banker,
notwithstanding the danger, gave the order to depart.
"Do not be afraid," he might have said to the beat-
man ; " thou earliest more than did the bark of old.

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Thou earnest the misfortune df Caesar and the for-
tune of Rothschild."

"Bonaparte was dead," wrote Michelet. "Of the
century of iron was born the century of money.
Owing to the loans contracted, loans apparently made
to prepare for war in time of peace, the Jew was the
man of the hour. Then sprang also the famous Jew
Eodrigues, who, under the name of St. Simon,
founded a new sect, wrote a new gospel that tended
to cast a cloak of respectability over the Jews, which,
though light in itself, covered many of their sinful
acts. . . . The Jews created reservoirs into which
capital incessantly poured."

People and kings were no longer anything but pup-
pets, the strings by which they were moved being held
by the Jews. Christian nations have heretofore
fought for country, glory, and their flag. In future
we shall find them fighting their battles for the sake
of Israel, with the permission of Israel, and for the
satisfaction of Israel.

TEE JEWS THE RULERS OF OUR EPOCH.

In 1790 the Jew arrived in France. Under the
First Republic and under the First Empire he rambled
about aimlessly, seeking a place. Later, under the
Eest oration and the Monarchy of July, " he sat in
the parlor." Under the Second Empire he slept in
the bed of others. Under the Third Eepublic he be-
gan to drive the natives from their homes, or, at
the least, he began to force them to work for him.
"In 1890," says Drumont, "if, as I wish to believe,

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notwithstanding past* follies, there is still concealed
among the Gentiles a sufficient amount of strength to
snatch us from death, the Jew will return to his start-
ing point, after restituting in a wholesale manner
what he took <in retail ' from the too trusting and
hospitable Aryan. "

All the blood shed upon the scaffold, and upon the
fields of battle, battles which recall the genius of
Napoleon and the tenacity of Wellington, all ended
in what maybe termed "a settlement of accounts/'
All that formidable human movement that cost the
lives of thousands of Aryans had just been settled in
the Judengasse of Frankfort. The man of the time
was a Jew, a tricky Jew, known to the world as the
great financier, Rothschild.

The Aryans had killed one another during the
previous twenty-five years in order to raise to emi-
nence a Jew of loathsome mien. who. while thev were
fighting, quietly gnawed upon ducats.

While he collected into his hands all the private
treasures of Germany and of England, Kothschild
placed his capital at the disposal of the French Gov-
ernment. But, like Maitre Jacques in ISAvare of
Moiiere, he changed role according to circumstances.
He was by turns the most implacable of creditors and
the most accommodating of lenders. How is it possi-
ble to dispute the validity of a loan with one who so
readily obliges you ?

Under the pressure of this accommodating Shylock
France had to pay, even to the last cent, the most
impudent claims, the most fraudulent accounts, the

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most chimerical debts. Every damage, real or imag-
inary, that an army of 1,500,000 had caused during
its march across Europe, had to be settled by the Ees-
toration, but engrossed by the filthy hands of the sub-
ordinate Jews, through whom these claims had passed
before reaching the neater but equally avaricious
hands of Eothschild. At the call of Israel the dead
seemed even to rise from their tombs, and France had
to pay the accounts of a regiment of German cavalry
which a certain unheard-of general had collected to
assist France. These operations powerfully aided
the plans of the Jews, from whom these claims were
redeemed with interest, claims that the Jews had
obtained for a mere nothing. The Jews were every-
where busy in ferreting out these claims, for they
knew that there was one in France, one of their own,
who treated of affairs of state directly with the
ministers.

James de Eothschild, who in former years was in-
stalled at Provence Street, was no longer the obscure
money-lender of by-gone days. He was an Austrian
baron, raised to this position by Metternich. The
Duchess of Angouleme was surprised and shocked
at the proposal once made to her to admit Roths-
child's wife to her presence, a shrug of her shoulders
eloquently expressing her disgust. But notwithstand-
ing the rebuff of the Duchess, Eothschild himself
was already a power in the financial world.

The Jews on the other side of the Ehine, who were
still timidly trying to establish themselves in Paris,
looked upon the house of the Eothschilds as the

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mother of French Judaism. "With that spirit of
solidarity that animates the race, the Eothschilds
assisted the newly arrived Jews, furnished them
with the means to exercise their trade of petty
usury, and at the same time received from the new-
coiners valuable information, and organized that
secret Jewish police which has not its equal in the
entire world.

"The Eestoration had not perceived the danger of this
Jewish invasion, and the Jews were accordingly able
to follow out their silent work. To the little syn-
agogue in St. Avoie Street, with which they were con-
tent until the year 1821, now succeeded a pretentious
temple in Victory Street, a name in which the Jews
claimed to see a favorable omen.

It was in 1818 that the Semitic question was again
brought to the attention of the Chambers. A cour-
ageous citizen, the Marquis de Lallier, demanded
in a petition that the decree of 1808 should be ex-
tended against the Jews for the period of ten years.
The petition passed without a dissenting vote. But
secret influences were brought to bear that put an
end to a further mention of the subject.

The Jews, we must admit, then displayed great
political acumen, for they induced people to speak as
little about them as possible.

The crowding and noisy Jews of to-day did not then
exist. In proportion as they are to-day cynical,
grossly blasphemous, dazzled by their triumphs, im-
agining themselves to be already completely our
masters, to an equal extent under the Eestoration

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they were patient, humble, and content to wait.
It was enough for them to be allowed to wait.

The number of bankers of purely French origin
was then very limited in Paris, for, as Toussenel says,
"It is so repulsive to France, that great and generous
nation, to follow the ignoble traffic which forces man
to lie, that it had been found necessary to import the
Jndah to exercise it." Opposed to the Kothschilds
and the Jew Barings stood forth the distinguished
French financiers, Casimir Perier, Lafitte, and a few
others, who occupied in the financial world an honor-
able position. Had these few Aryans united they
would from the very beginning have stopped the es-
tablishment of the Jewish bank, which introduced
theft and ruin into the markets, for the French bank-
ers were in close relations with ministers who were not
like those of to-day, promoters of stock-swindling
operations. They were men who never lent their
names or influence to launch forth mines without
mineral. They were irreproachable men who, upon
leaving the offices intrusted to them, kept for their
patrimony only a name upon which no suspicion
could be breathed. But petty grudges, as it often
happens, stifled patriotism among the native bankers,
and the Jew bank was allowed to be established.

With the rule of Louis-Philippe, the reign of the
Jew began. Under the Eestoration one could ap-
proximately compute the number of Jews. Every
Jew was obliged to have his name registered. In
1830 Kothschild succeeded in having this law an-
nulled. As Toussenel savs : " There was no longer
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TEE ORIGINAL ME. JACOBS.

a reigning power in France, for the Jews kept it en-
slaved."

During this reign of the Jews an imperishable
masterpiece appeared — the book, by Toussenel, en-
titled The Jews, the Kings of the Epoch. A philo-
sophical and social study, the work of a poet, of a
thinker, of a Christian, this admirable work by
Toussenel has to this day remained without an
equal.

Toussenel had in him what the saints possessed
to an exceptional degree— hatred and love : the love
for the poor, the suffering and the humble ; hatred
for the swindler, the thief, the trafficker in human
flesh. In that eloquent work of Toussenel, the Jew
is depicted in his hideous nakedness. His filthy bar-
gains and swindling operations are clearly told.
The everyday life of Eothschild is drawn in all its
rottenness, as well as that of the Jews Leon Say, John
Lemoinne, Aaron Eaffalowich, and of others who ob-
tained official positions and concessions through black-
mail and bribery.

Jewish exploitation is also displayed in this book in
all its cynicism. We find ministers of state appro-
priating for the construction of the Northern Railroad
100,000,000 francs, an enormous sum for those years,
and when no more resources were available the min-
isters turned the railroad over to the Rothschilds for a
term of forty years for exploitation in consideration
of a ridiculous sum.

TVe find in the same book the career of the Jew
Foald, who caused the death of one hundred persons

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by his refusal to repair an engine which had been
time and again condemned. This Fould was the son
of a bootblack, whose curious origin we give below.

During the last century there lived in Nancy the
Jew banker Cerfbeer de Medelsheim. He was the
father of eight children, of whom four were boys, to
whom he tried to giye a liberal education, by which
the boys profited little, as they placed pleasure above
their duties.

Under the window of this banker there was a little
Jew bootblack, who blacked the shoes of those who en-
tered the house of the financier. Medelsheim noticed
this boy, who picked the papers thrown into the street,
and tried, pencil in hand, to teach himself to write
and to count. He was delighted to see his applica-
tion, but at the same time he was j)ained at the lazi-
ness of his sons, whom he often reproached, and cited
to them the example of the poor little abandoned
waif, who acquired by himself the instruction which
professors, dearly paid, in vain tried to impart to
them.

Opening the window he called in the little fellow,
and said to him : " Put yourself there, my child ; you
are studious and wise. Henceforth you will partake
at this table of the instruction given to my sons, and
I hope that you will be benefited."

The young bootblack was installed in the mansion
of the banker, and profited by the instruction so
liberally granted to him. In course of time he be-
came footman, then the factotum of the house, and
later was promoted to the position of cashier. He

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married one of the chambermaids of Madame de Me-
delsheim, and finally decided to establish himself on
% his own account as a banker in Paris. His benefac-
tor advanced him 30,000 francs, but the amount did
not last long, and the new bank failed. Another sum
of 30,000 francs was advanced him, which did not im-
prove matters. Finally a third sum of an equal
amount was brought by post to him, by Madame
Alean, a granddaughter of Medelsheim, and niece to
General Baron Wolfe. This time fortune smiled on
Fould, and did not abandon him. He associated
with himself his son Benoit, who married a Miss
Oppenheim, of Cologne, and hence the firm name,
Fould & Fould-Oppenheiro, so well known. His
other sons were Louis and Achilles, the latter the
friend and minister of Xapoleon HI. !

In the book of Toussenel monopoly or the Jewish
feudality is described in the following manner :

"It is a pity that Montesquieu failed to define the
industrial feudality. TTe might have expected upon
this subject some piquant revelations from the witty
thinker who said, 6 The financiers sustain a State as
the cord sustains the hanged/ The industrial, finan-
cial or commercial feudality does not rest either upon
honor or upon honors. ... It has for basis the
commercial monoj)oly, the character of which is in-
satiate cupidity, the mother of swindles, bad faith and
coalition, stamped with the mark of falsehood and
of iniquity. . . .

u If anarchy claims to strike the rich and respect

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the poor, it is not the same with the despotism of com-
mercial feudality.

'^Monopoly invades the hut of the poor as it does
the palaces of princes. Every kind of food is suited
to its voracity. Like the subtle mercury, which,
both by its weight and its fluidity, introduces itself
into all the pores, like the hideous tape-worm whose
parasitical circlets follow in their circumvolutions all
the viscera of the human body, in the same manner
monopoly, which is personified in the Jew, causes its
suckers to run to the extreme ramifications of the
social organism, in order to pump out of it every
substance which can strengthen its tentacles. The
tone of monopoly * is egotism, which seeks in vain to
dissimulate its nature under the cloak of a hypocriti-
cal philanthropy. Its device is, 6 Every one for him-
self.' The words country, religion and faith, have no
meaning for these men who have a money-bag in the
place of a heart.

" Country the Jew has not. Where gold is to be
found there is his country. Monopoly, I repeat it,
is personified in the Jew. The religion of the Jews
tramples under foot Christ, and spits in his face in
order to acquire the exclusive right to traffic with the
Japanese."

No one better than Toussenel has depicted the con-
quest of all Christian governments by the Jews.

" The Jew/' he writes, " has struck all govern-

* How well the description fits The Standard Oil Company
that the New York Times had the courage and independence
" to show up " time and again.

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merits with a new mortgage, a mortgage that Chris-
tian States will never -paj off with their revenues.'''

Europe is enfeoffed to the domination of Israel.
This universal dominion, which so many conquerors
have dreamed of, the Jews have in their hands ; the
God of Judah has kept his word with the prophets,
and given victory to the sons of Maccabees. Jerusa-
lem has imposed tribute upon all states. The prod-
ucts of ail workers pass into the purse of the Jews,
under the name of interest on the national debt.

If the German Jews, represented by Kothschild,
have, in a short space of time, succeeded in swallow-
ing up the greater part of the public fortune, we must
acknowledge that they have been powerfully aided by
the Portuguese Jews, of whom a vast number belong
to what is termed the St. Simon sect.

Capefigue thus defines this wonderful sect, one of
the most interesting developments of the human
mind :

" The spirit of this particular school, and that of the
Jews at large, have this in common, that both aim to
speculate, to enrich themselves. But the spirit of the
former sect at times lights up. becomes passionate,
almost poetic. It is often occupied with the theory
of social advancement, while Judaism at large is con-
tent with its swindling operations, speculations, and
money grabbing.*'

The Rothschilds do not belong to the Simon sect.
In the immense city of Paris they have always re-
mained the same as in their frame house in the Ju-
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waited until some one knocked at their door, to open
it and ask what pledge was brought.

A well-known and, relatively speaking, respectable
family in Paris is the family of the Jew Pereire.
They live in a simple style, and do not even have a
box at the opera, although they are wealthy enough
to build an opera-house. They do good quietly, but
thev do it, and without noise. They belong to a
family infinitely more honorable than the Rothschilds,
and they do not have, like these scions of the Ghetto,
a mania for always putting themselves forward, nor the
vulgar impudence to deride, with their insolent dis-
play, families whose names stand forth gloriously in
the pages of history. The attitude of the family of
Pereire has won for them due consideration, and they
are far more respected than the Rothschilds, who, with
all their ridiculous pretensions, are scoffed at and
despised by even those who associate with them.

During the inauguration of the Xorthern Railroad
in France, a few fanatics cried "Vive Rothschild !"
But at once hisses and hootings were heard. At Ver-
sailles the immense crowd that had collected burst
into laughter before the Smalali cV Aid- e< -leader, in
which Vernet represented Fould running off with the
cash-box.

At that time people dared what very few would
dare to-day. Rothschild was openly attacked, and an
amusing and witty work, containing anecdotes rep-
resenting the swindling operations of the Jews, found
readers by the thousands. In 1835 a book was pub-
lished, written by one Renault Becourt, entitled

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Judaism Unveiled. We have succeeded in finding
only a prospectus of this book, because the Jews
cause all books to disappear in which they are judged
somewhat severely. The author cited the progress-
ive encroachment which during the last fifty years
has assumed such formidable proportions. "Ever
since the enfranchisement of the Jews," he said,
" their numbers have so much increased that in the
provincial towns where formerly only a score could
be found, they are to-clay counted by the thousands.
. . . What have 'these usurers let escape their
grasp ? Ask the unhappy merchants who were for-
merly well off where their property has gone to. 99

It is evident that the possessions of many merchants,
who have been reduced to poverty, must have gone
somewhere. The Jews did not arrive covered with
gold from the interior of Germany.

There still existed newspapers which overwhelmed
with their bitter sarcasm their operations. In vain
the Archives Israelites took Heaven to witness as to
the virtues of Israel. The earth resj)onded by enum-
erating its misdeeds.

At that period a writer of great originality, Petrus
Borel, published an article in the Journal du Com-
merce, apropos of a representation given by the Jews
"amid trumpets of advertising." He handled them
without gloves, with the refined insolence of the
scholar, whose pen leaves blue stripes. Poor fellow !
The Jews, according to their custom, persecuted him
during his life. They tracked him like the hunted
deer. They deprived him of the petty position he held

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in Algeria whither he had gone to escape them. Owing
to these intrigues and persecutions, Petrus Borel, the
great writer, died of inanition.

THE GERMAK" JEWS.

The Be volution of 1848 was the only one not favor-
able to the Jews, omitting, of course, the coming one,
which will be infinitely less agreeable to them, the
good one, the one that will be made against them.
What saved Eothschild at that time was the fact that
the notorious Jew Goudchaux, formerly a dealer in
spurious stones, was Minister of Finance. Eothschild
was an interesting subject to contemplate. From
November, 1847, to February, 1848, he solicited sub-
scriptions to a government loan of 250,000,000
francs, and during these few months he not only
succeeded in placing the entire loan, but realized for
himself the modest benefit of 18,000,000 francs. With
the aviditythat distinguishes him, Eothschild was not
satisfied with the 18,000,000 francs. He cynically re-
fused to pay the amount of 170,000,000 which he
still owed to the government on account of the loan,
and announced that he had failed. The course the
government had to pursue was clear. It had only to
arrest this fraudulent banker and to imprison him in
Mazas, which prison had just then been constructed.
But the Jew Goudchaux, the Minister of Finance,
took care to protect him. He considered valid the
theory of Eothschild, that the word given to a Goy
does not bind the Jew. He not only protected the
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with the government, but employed him again for a
new issue of 30,000,000.

History does not furnish an example of such un-
paralleled robbery. The Aryan was black with pow-
der, died of hunger in the streets, all shops were
closed, and finally when victory came to him he had
succeeded — in doing what ? In strengthening the
position of the Jew Goudchaux. In the midst of so
much heart-rending misery, one thought only per-
vaded the compassionate soul of the Jew. Goudchaux
still remembered that in the treasury, which was sup-
posed to be empty, there still lingered a few shares of
the loan issued, and he himself brought them to
Eothschild, for which theft he was well rewarded.

This revolution, however, well-nigh brought about
the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as the Repub-
lic was proclaimed, the peasants in various sections of
the kingdom attacked the houses of the Jews, and
took back portions of the property of which they had
been robbed. When thev' were brought before the
jury at Strasburg they were acquitted amid cheers,
and were carried orT in triumph.

Unfortunately the movement was isolated. Xo
anti-Semitic organization was then in existence to
urge upon the oppressed to act in common, and the
attempted emancipation of the Christians did not
succeed.

Upon the restoration of the Empire, the Jew Fould,
in his capacity of Prime Minister, brought about the
marriage between the Emperor and. the Empress, pro-
nouncing, no doubt, in Petto all the forms of maledic-

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tion that the Talmud contains over the head of the
child that was to issue from this union. This was the
unfortunate Imperial Prince, who was inveigled by a
Jew into an ambuscade in Zuluiand and lost his life.

With the return of order in France a considerable
number of Bordeaux Jews came to Paris.

The Jews of the South displayed the qualities pe-
culiar to their race, which qualities we have already
indicated. They were powerfully assisted by the gold
that constantly accumulates in the vaults of Eoths-
childj as if heaped together by the silent rake of an
invisible partner.

The Jews of the South when they reached Paris
built magnificent residences, but refrained from join-
ing the Eothschilds in their nefarious designs, where-
at the Eothschilds became dissatisfied and well-nigh
effected the ruin of Pereire, one of the most promi-
nent Jews of the South. The Eothschilds invited the
Jew capitalists of Germany to join them in their con-
spiracy against Pereire, and the German Jews in
crowds crossed over into Paris.

From the beginning of 1865 everything has been
in the hands of the German Jew. He became the
master of the world. A few should be specially men-
tioned. The Jew Offenbach and the Jew Halevy de-
ride in General Bourn the chiefs of the French Army.
The Jew Kugelmann conducts a printing establish-
ment, whither flock the Jews of all stations, who talk
loud and who impart to ears ever open, ever ready
to catch a whisper, interesting news, or useful in-
formation, which is quickly communicated to the pub-

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lie press, now exclusively owned by the Jews. All gov-
ernment positions, high and low, are in their hands.

During the reign of Napoleon III. it was the Jew
Adrien Marx who occupied the place formerly held by
Kacine, that of historiographer of France. It was
the Jew Jules Cohen who directed the music in the
Chapel of the Tuileries. It was the Jew Waldteufel
who conducted the orchestra at the court balls. 1ST ow
follow me to the confessional, into which no one, not
even the Emperor, dares enter, and you will there see
a woman kneeling before a priest, and confiding to
him the anxieties of an empress and of a mother, con-
cerning the war about to take place.

This priest is the German Jew, Jean-Marie Bauer.
Never has the Jew interloper produced a type so com-
plete, so eminently qualified to interest the writer
who in later years will try to paint this strange cen-
tury.

One fine morning this suspicious convert arrived in
France. He took it into his head to supplant the
venerable Abbe Deguerry, chaplain, during many
years, to the Empress, and to occupy this post of con-
fidence so coveted by all the priests of the country.
He succeeded ! Did he succeed in this through hy-
pocrisy or by the display of eminent virtues ? By no
means. He relied, like all Jews, solely on his impu-
dence, and on his belief that one may dare everything
where a Goy is concerned. He organized those famous'
ecclesiastical luncheons where future councillors were
invited, and where suggestive songs were sung.

" Our Paradise is a beloved bosom."

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This Jew convert, dressed by Worth, wore the
costume of a charlatan, displayed a luxury and a va-
riety of lace work that made many a woman dream of
him.

The siege began. This Jew acrobat, in violet stock-
ings and shoes, such as are worn by jockeys, was ap-
pointed chief chaplain of the ambulance corps. He
was always to be found at the outposts, and his en-
thusiasm to minister to the dying soldier was so great
that it brought him sufficiently close to the enemy to
enable him to throw useful information into their
lines respecting the besieged city.

When all was ended he laughed in the face of those
he had divped. He left his priestly robes in the
green-room of an obscure theatre, produced porno-
graphic publications about the demi-mondaines of the
Second Empire, and nightly showed himself at the
opera, where, strangely enough, honorable men still
admitted this unworthy priest into their boxes. At
last, when he found his eclat growing dim, he went
to Brussels, where he married.

The poor Empress paid cruelly for her thought-
lessness in choosing such an intriguing personage for
a confessor.

The Empress was the first to set a fashion that
generals, writers, diplomats shortly afterward adopted.
One and all confessed to the Jews.

The Prussian Jew banker, Bleichroeder, was in the
pay of the Prussian Government, and was its acknowl-
edged spy during the late Franco-Prussian War. Under
such conditions one must not be surprised at the

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crushing defeat France suffered. The Jews were en-
listed on the side of the enemy, hence France suc-
cumbed.

It may be interesting, however, to know that the
plans of the Jews nearly miscarried at the last mo-
ment.

The thoroughly good-hearted, far-seeing sovereign,
Napoleon III., resisted as long as he could the pressure
of the Empress, who, spurred on by the Jew Bauer,
said to the Emperor, " TJiis is my war" On the other
hand William, the Christian monarch, felt his con-
science trouble him as he thought of the hundred
thousand men who that day were quietly cultivating
the earth, and yet within a month would lie dead upon
the field of battle. To the last moment the Empress
Augusta supplicated the Emperor to maintain peace.

William did what no other sovereign perhaps would
have done in his place. The candidature of Prince
Hohenzollern to the throne of Spain was withdrawn.
The German Jews, in their despair, had recourse to a
lie. A Jewish agency, the Wolff News Agency, an-
nounced that the French ambassador had been insulted
by the King of Prussia, and the Jewish press imme-
diately spread the news, as follows :

" France has been insulted ; the blood boils in our
veins. Our ambassador has been outraged." The
result of this lie was the declaration of war.

THE COMMUTE.

The first spy caught at Metz, at the beginning of
the Franco-Prussian War, was a Jew. On the 19th of

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August, 1870, a newspaper, Le Novel, stated : " The
greater part of the spies caught are Jews. This ig-
noble business could not be better pursued than by
the children of that despicable race, who had the bad
fortune to produce in Judah the perfect type of perfidy
and treason."

In a word, the Jew was the scourge of the German
invasion.

Another French newspaper, U Illustration, in its
issue of the 27th of September, 1873, wrote : " So long-
as the battle rages the Jew keeps far in the rear. He
fears the shots. But when the enemy retreats and
the field of battle is abandoned, then the German
Jew appears.

" He is now the master, and the king of the bloody
field. His and his only are all the dead bodies. The
soldiers designate him by the characteristic name of
the vulture.

" Like a phantom he goes from group to group,
quietly robbing the dead. To see him running hither
and thither, bending his fiendish face, lighted with
a hellish expression, one would involuntarily turn
aside. With an avidity that beggars description, he
seizes everything that he can carry off. ifow and
then a group is seen hovering like vultures about
a dead body. Then suddenly they fall upon it,
and strip it of everything of value. . . . Some-
times a groan is heard, a wounded soldier pleads, but
the vulture has no time to occupy himself with senti-
ments of humanity. . . . The German Jew forms,
besides, an essential part of the German forces. Steal-

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ing is only his private business. He holds an official
position — that of a spy. After the battle it is he that
brings to headquarters all papers found upon the
bodies of superior officers. His business, however, is
not a sinecure. . . . He £oes in advance of the
arrays inquires into the resources of a city, informs
himself about the position and the forces of the enemy.
Sometimes, if caught, he is shot. But this is a rare
occurrence. In the first place the Jew takes every
precaution and rarely incurs any risk. But if. not-
withstanding these j^recautions. he falls into a crop,
he is never at a loss to extricate himself. He betrays
the Germans as readily as he does the French. Here-
after he keeps both sides informed as to their respec-
tive affairs, and finds this business immensely profit-
able.

"But the triumph, the dream of this low and
revolting being, is an armistice. Both sides are then
sufficiently at peace for him not to fear either rope
or bullets. Both sides are still sufficiently at war to
enable him to exercise his "hones: profession.' '"'

When peace was signed and the German Army en-
tered Paris, the Jew vultures, happy, their faces
wreathed with smiles, as if they had taken an active-
part in all the battles of the war, marched behind the
white Prussian cuirassiers. As is well known, it
was the staff officers, the Emperor's own body-guard,
and not the army, that first entered the city. This
imposing body was on that day performing the duty
of scouts, and marched in slow, measured steps, cast-
ing anxious looks to the right and to the left, upon

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145

the small crowd of spectators who lined both sides
of the Elysees. These mounted men were nearly all
of lofty stature and powerful build, and they appeared
upon their horses like experienced horsemen of the
race-course. They wore, one and alb the brilliant
uniform of Prussian cuirassiers. With their helmets
of imposing aspect, their breast-plates adorned with
armorial bearings, they looked like legendary heroes,
as they rode forward on that eventful day in the
month of 3Iarch. The bearing of these aristocratic
soldiers was in keeping with their military dress.
Their complexion was clear and red. Their whole
aspect was grand. They rode upon bay horses, and
their heavy moustaches were curled up in true mili-
tary fashion. Their blue eyes looked fierce, and
recalled the picture of the ancestors of these men as
drawn by the ancient historians. The impression
they made was one newer to be forgotten, recalling
the mounted figures sculptured upon the facade of the
castles of Heidelberg. Every one of them presented
the type of feudal Germany — the age of iron, the reign
of force, the military middle ages. This little escort,
in the midst of which the King of Prussia could be
seen, advanced with precaution, as it has been stated.
To enter into Paris, the hot-bed of revolutions, after
a siege of five months and a half, justly seemed
fraught with danger. It was like entering a volcano.
Before risking the army, the royal body-guard was
feeling the territory, from fear, no doubt, that, not-
withstanding the precautions taken, some hidden
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invading forces. It was the King, the princes, the
generals, who on that day were doing the work of the
Uhlans. This detachment was immediately followed
by another. But this time it was not a military force.
It was a ciyil procession which presented an appear-
ance not less curious than the one we have described.
Behind these centaurs, clothed in iron and glittering
with steel, marched a crowd of queer beings, clothed
in long coats. Their elongated faces, their hooked
noses, their disheveled hair, their dirty beards, and
their broad-rimmed hats, presented the type, the un-
mistakable type of the Jew who follows the German
army, and whom the soldiers call vultures.

After this double procession had passed nearly an
hour elapsed before anything occurred. The delay
was caused by the well-known Jew. Ernest Pi card,
who had the kindness to welcome the conquerors
with a banquet in which champagne flowed without
stint.

When the banquet was over, the body-guard resumed
its march. But now it wheeled around, and inarched
back again through the Champs-Elysees until it came
before the army, which was ready to enter. Again
we saw the centaurs followed by the sons of Israel.
But their appearance was not the same. Breakfast had
jiroduced its effect. The wine had illumined their
faces. Their attitude was arrogant and assured, because
no danger was to be feared, and no mine threatened to
explode. The German cuirassiers move up the ave-
nue. But now a sorrowful episode occurs. A poor
French workman, mad with patriotic grief, plunges

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147

his knife into the chest of a horse. The man is seized
and turned over to the Jews, who tear him to pieces.

Here we must say a few words concerning the
French workman so often mentioned in accounts that
have heretofore appeared about the Commune. We
have visited nearly every country in Europe, Asia
and America, and after a careful examination into
the industrial condition of the working man, we are
prepared to say that nowhere have we seen a happier
and more satisfied being than is the French workman.
Owing to his ardor and his gayety, to his patriotism,
which was so conspicuously displayed during the siege
of Paris ; owing to his loyalty, his disinterestedness, his
love of fair play, he is an obstacle in the path of the
covetous German Jew. The Commune offered an
excellent opportunity to kill as many of these work-
ing men as possible. Denounced by the leaders who
goaded, them to acts of violence, as. for instance, by
the notorious Jew Barrere, who afterward became
Minister Plenipotentiary, these unfortunate men
filled with their bodies the streets, the avenues, the
squares, the gardens, and the parks of Paris. Per-
haps some of my readers saw these workmen during
the second siege on their way to the ramparts, march-
ing in good order past the house of Eothschiid, and
never for a moment thinking of entering it, half
clothed and half fed though they were. To the low
German Jews, who governed Paris at that time, the
palace of Eothschiid was an object of veneration, and
without much difficulty they inspired the same re-
spect for that mansion in the poor dupes around them.

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The Aryan, need we repeat it, is a being of faith and
discipline, and holds to these sentiments even in times
of revolution. He is born to be the intrepid and de-
vout crusader, the soldier of the veteran guard, the
obscure and interesting victim of even the Commune.

The French Commune consisted of two classes.

The one was the unreasonable, thoughtless, but
brave class. This class was mainly composed of na-
tive Frenchmen.

The other was the avidious, thievish and low specu-
lative class, composed wholly of Jews. The French
Communists fought bravely and were killed.

The Jew Communists stole,, assassinated and lit fires
with petroleum to conceal their thefts. Certain Jew
merchants, established at Turbigo Street, organized
devastation in the spirit of commercial enterprise, and
subsequently retired to Xew York with a fortune of
two or three million francs. Like the Jew fireman,
as the anecdote has it, the Jews practised the grande
soulasse, only murder followed by theft was this time
combined with incendiarism.

The Commune had two results.

First. It enriched the Jews at the expense of the
Gentiles. The Communists never touched a Jew's
property. Not one of the one hundred and fifty
houses owned by Eothschild was attacked.

Second. An important result for the Jews. It
caused 30,000 Frenchmen to be killed by Frenchmen.
The Germans in exchange for the protection they had
granted the Jews asked of them only one service —
the destruction of France's glorious monuments.

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149

That column, constructed of the cannon taken from
the Germans, was an object of constant annoyance to
them. Notwithstanding their easy victory over the
nephew, they were still wroth at the invincible Im-
perator whom they saw draped in the mantel of a
Eoman Emperor, standing upon one of the world's
greatest monuments.

But although masters of Paris, their Aryan descent
would not allow them to lay violent hands upon the
column. They respected the monuments of the vic-
tories won by France, as well as the statues of her he-
roes. But what they themselves abstained from doing,
they let the Jew do, as if perchance to prove that the
Jew may at times be useful.

Maxim Du Camp, in his book, Convulsions de Paris,
thus relates the events of that day: "Suddenly a man
appeared upon the top of a building, agitated a tri-
colored flag and hurled it into space, in order to indi-
cate to all the assembled multitude that the commem-
orative emblem of the French Eevolution, of the First
Empire, of the Kingdom of Louis-Philippe, of the
Second Republic, and of the Second Empire, then dis-
appeared from history and was to be succeeded by a
new era, symbolized by a rag of the color of blood,
called the red flag.

" The man who had the honor to throw to the wind
the flag of France was worthy of his mission. He was
called Simon Mayer, the same who had taken part in
the murder of General Lecomte and of General Clement
Thomas. This noble action of his found its sweetest
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the Com mime who stood there attentive and delighted.
The sound of a clarion was heard — a deep silence
reigned throughout the streets. Everybody kept quiet,
and a sort of fascination kept all eyes riveted upon the
column, around which heavy cables were wound. It
was a little after five o'clock when it fell with a thud.
. . . From time to time a few cannon shots fired
at a distance sounded as a farewell.''

A man betrayed the God who came to bring to the
world words of comfort and of love. He was called
Judas, and he was a Jew.

A man betrayed a'woman who had trusted in him.
He was called Simon Deutz, and he was a Jew.

A man gave the signal to destroy the monument of
the old glories of France. He was called Simon Mayer,
and he was a Jew.

Out of that sublime trinity — God, woman, genius
— out of that triple form of the ideal — divinity,
beauty and dorv — out of all these the Jews made
money.

Accordingly, the years 1873 and 1ST 7 saw the com-
plete triumph of Israel. From one end of Europe to
the other a Jew hosannah took place, which reverbera-
ted to the remotest corner inhabited by a Jew. The
Jews now repeated, but on far more gigantic propor-
tions, what Eothschild had done in 1815. They en-
riched themselves by loaning to the Frenchmen the
money which they had obtained from the Prussians,
and which money France had paid the latter. Out of
every five millions paid by France to Prussia, four at
least remained in the hands of the Jews. The king of

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the time was Bleichroeder, for whose sake France later
undertook the expedition to Tunis. He was rewarded
by Bismarck with the iron cross ; but we must not for-
get that while Germany employs the Jew and sometimes
rewards hint, she keeps aloof from him in all matters
pertaining to the honor and the dignity of the country.
When the son of Bleichroeder wormed his way. nobody
knows how, into a body of officers of the Hussars,
deafening hisses arose as soon as he presented himself
before them. They spat in his f ace, and he had to flee
precipitately. Never will the German officer, who
keeps sacred the traditions of the old Teuton Cavaliers,
admit to their ranks a man whom they dare not trust,
and who, for the sake of money, will not hesitate to
betray their flag.

THE JEWS AETEU THE C0M3IUXE.

The Commune drew to Paris all the wanderers, all
the adventurers, all the low, swindling mass of the
Israelite race. They established themselves in many
once populous quarters which the Commune had left
empty.

The admirable solidarity of the Jews, and their spirit
of intrigue, enabled the new-comers in a short time
to openly assume the direction of the affairs of the
city of Paris.

First of all they sought for a false Messiah, and they
quickly found him in Gambetta.

Little attention was paid by them to Mac-Mahon.
Faithful to their inexcusable infatuation for the half-
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applying to a brave general of pure French stock, like
Ducrot, who would have saved the country from that
hideous crowd of Jew adventurers, put its confidence
in Mac-Mahon, that arrant idiot who said Thiers
"never spoke, and always lied."

Mac-Mahon was of the pure mastiff type, and may
well be considered a representative of the Celtic race
when in power.

uTh^ Greek," wrote Paul de Saint- Victor, "was
the child of genius of the Aryan family." It may
be said of the Celt that he is the black sheep of this
same family.

The Celts have had heroes, prophets, poets, but they
never have produced a great statesman. JSTow and
then, at long intervals, there springs from this race
some extraordinary being, almost legendary. The de-
votion, the spontaneity, the enthusiasm, which man-
ifests itself throughout this race, sometimes produces
men of an almost superhuman inspiration. But
all these precious gifts are neutralized by an absence
of the faculty of order. As a social organization the
Celts, left to themselves, have never been able to get
beyond the clan. Ireland received her death-blow
from the family divisions perpetuated from generation
to generation. Although the Irish are eminently
qualified to accomplish exceptional exploits, they are
lamentably deficient in continuity.

Mac-Mahon on the field of battle had all the bravery
of his race, but all its faults when in power. He
was astonishingly grotesque as President ; he allowed
himself to be driven from a position that was impreg-

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liable, if intelligently defended, and finally lie shame-
fully backed down before a handful of lawyers who
trembled every time he sought his handkerchief, be-
lieving that he was going to seize his sword. He had
neither the subtleness nor the ability of Thiers, nor
had he the sentiment of authority, the respect for his
word, nor the tenacity in maintaining his rights, that
a German would have had.

Thiers called him " the disloyal soldier," and he
merited this appellation, for he abandoned ail who
had trusted in his promise to fight to the very end.

The great misfortune of France, at that time, was
her slowness in putting at the helm of government
true representative men, instead of leaving the man-
agement of the ship of State to a motley crowd of Jew
speculators.

The Jews were masters of the situation, and they
soon gave abundant evidence of the authority they
had and of their ability to win over to their side men
in whom the populace blindly trusted.

At the Congress held in Berlin, France, for the
first time since the Franco-German war, was brought
face to face with Europe, which, but a few years pre-
viously, had allowed her to be mercilessly mutilated.

Now who was intrusted with the task of represent-
ing France ? Waddington, an Englishman, a man
with all the instincts of the cosmopolite Jew. Wad-
dington had relatives everywhere excepting in France.
He had many cousins in Germany. His sister married
a Prussian diplomat, and one of his uncles was a colo-
nel in the English army.

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Public demoralization was so complete that no one
protested against his being chosen, ho one in fact paid
any attention to the matter. The people were as in-
different as when the Prussian Jew Spuiler was ap-
pointed Secretary to the Government of National De-
fence. Worse still, not a murmur was heard against
the attitude assumed by Waddington at that memo-
rable Congress. The policy that ought to have been
followed was manifest, and any intelligent and patri-
otic man would have followed it from instinct.

Russia, on account of the latent antagonism exist-
ing between her and Germany, is, if not the natural
ally of France, at least the only nation upon which
Prance can count. The Czar Alexander rendered to
Prance a signal service in 1875 by opposing the brutal
attitude of Germany toward France. What possible
harm could the treaty of San-Stefano do to France,
even had it been favorable to Russia ?

We saw, however, the strange spectacle of a French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, nominally a Frenchman,
espousing with burning zeal the interest of England,
urging her to seize Cyprus, and smilingly assenting
when England announced her intention of driving
Prance from Egypt and adding that country to her
numerous possessions.

In return Waddington asked for only one thing
— the emancipation of the Jews in Eoumania ! Not-
withstanding the lies of the Jewish press, it is well
known that the Roumanians are a brave, hospitable
nation, a nation of artists, descendants of the ancient
colonists of Trajan, and that they love to recall that

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their name even shows the near relation existing be-
tween them and the sons of ancient Eome.

The Italian type has assumed among the Eouman-
ians a sort of Oriental grace, but at the same time virile
and poetic in the extreme. They love to sing in the
evening by the light of the stars those original and
weird melodies, the strange rhythm of which lingers in
the ear. In a word, if the Jews did not exist among
them they would have been perfectly happy.

The Jew in Eoumania does not constitute a fixed
malady. He is a sort of continual influx impossible
to stop. The great reservoirs of Judaism in Galicia
and the neighboring provinces of Eussia incessantly
exhale upon that unhappy land their miasmatic mat-
ter.

These Jews have been time and again described in
books of travel. They wear long, filthy cloaks, em-
broidered with metallic gimp, from which vermin fall
wherever they pass, thus offering a constant danger to
public health. The Jews have made this country,
in which they believe their Messiah will be born of the
Isrolka family, what they have sought to make France.
They gnaw, suck, exhaust unhappy Eoumania. They
monopolize the sale of strong drinks, and little by little
they take all the money and all the products, thus
destroying the prosperity of the country. If a farmer
sets foot in one of these drinking places he is lost
forever, for everything he has passes from his hands.
The clothes, the beast of burden, the farm, the field,
the marriage ring, everything is sold to satisfy the
Jew. The farmer, stupefied by the poison poured out

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to him, signs a paper authorizing the Jew rum-seller
to charge any drinks that the farmer may ask for.
This paper is not presented to him until a long time
afterward, when he is no longer in a condition to pay.
Then the Jew vulture falls upon his prey, and a con-
federate buys for a mere nothing the little domain of
the poor fellow.

" These Jews/*' says Ernest Desjardins, in his book
Les Jitifs de Moldavie, " do not wish either to work
or to cultivate the soil. They will not assume any
responsibility, they will not submit to law, to the regu-
lations of hygiene, and they refuse to handle the
plough, the pickaxe or the gun. In a word, they re-
fuse to handle anything except money/'

These Eoumanian Jews have, let it be mentioned
to their credit, had the frankness to acknowledge
their aversion to the profession of arms. The Ar-
chives Israelites of the year 1865 published a petition of
the Jews sent to the Senate in Bucharest, couched in
the following terms: 66 As we Jews are, generally
speaking, cowards, and have not even the courage to
shoot at a rabbit — a reason why we have lost our
country, and have been for the last two thousand
years in a position inferior to all other peoples — we
cannot be useful to a country as soldiers."

These were the clients whom Waddington turned
over to France, to the stupefaction of Bismarck, who,
in his brutal way, burst into laughter when the French
Minister brought this question upon the tapis. An old
revolutionary, Bratiano, a man who, during his exile,
had been the ardent friend of all the persecuted, said

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before the French Chamber: "Gentlemen, during
my political life I hare passed through many vicissi-
tudes and through many misfortunes, but nowhere
have I felt so unhappy as in Berlin, owing to the
attitude taken by Waddington."

At this time the Jews exulted, and the notorious
Jew, Creniieux, the chief man of the Republic of
France, at a meeting of the Israelite Alliance, said
in dithyrambic accents : " My faith is unbounded in
the continued prosperity of our situation, which to-day
is so exalted. Ah, allow me to attribute the cause of
this to the noble, the loyal and the pure attitude that
our Minister of Foreign Affairs, our TVaddington, dis-
played in Berlin."

The word our either 'explains the origin of "Wad-
dington, or at any rate it shows that the French Min-
ister of Foreign Affairs was theirs, because they had
paid him. Owing to the attitude of Waddington,
France acted the ignoble part of a brutal policeman,
who, without proyocation, handcuffs an innocent man
solely to permit the Jew to empty his poison into the
mouth of his victim.

Subsequently "Waddington was appointed ambassa-
dor to Russia, and the following almost incredible act
of his shows his love for the nation that trusted him.
Acting upon the advice of Bismarck, who was desirous
to have France commit an affront to the government
of the Czar, Waddington abstained from sending an
invitation to M. de Giers, the Russian Minister of For-
eign Affairs, to the official ball given by him.

This is a fact, and it was mentioned in the news-

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paper. Le Gaulois, in its issue of June '22. 1883. in

an article signed by one of the best informed political
writers of the day. How delightful to see France, on
the eve of bankruptcy, pay 250.000 francs to an En-
glishman who thus insults the only power which has
preserved a shadow of sympathy for France.

AVaddington was subsequently appointed Ambassa-
dor to the Court of St. James. He not only acquiesced
in the occupation of Egypt by England, where formerly
for a long time French influence preponderated, and
consented to the reducing of a debt owed to France
and guaranteed by all the Powers, but he also assented
to the issuing of a loan by England to take precedence
of all existing loans. This loan enabled England
to repay the damages that she had caused by her flu-
justifiable and barbarous bombardment of Alexandria.
TThen vVaddington's action became known, France,
acting upon the advice of the Powers that had guar-
anteed her own loan in Egypt, refused to ratify the
agreement made by her ambassador.

While the Jews had "Waddington to protect their
interests abroad, they had at home Gambetta. in whom
the dearest hopes of Israel were centred.

Gambetta was the creature of the Rothschilds. He
. never did anything unless for them, through them
and with them. Acting upon a plan perfected at a
-meeting held at the residence of Rothschild, and to
which a number of Jew bankers of Berlin were present,
it was agreed to precipitate France into a new war
with Germany.

The dream of the Jew ever since France foolishly

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opened her gates to him lias been to reduce her to
the condition of Poland, to force the Frenchman to
-wander, like the Jew. upon the earth, without a
country and without a home.

The plan agreed upon promised to succeed : it
promised to throw France into complete disorganiza-
tion, but just as everything seemed to favor the Jews,
Bismarck ceased to menace France, and even refused
to avail himself of the proffered advantages.

With that peculiar gift of foresight that great men
possess, the Chancellor perhaps saw that if France
were broken up as a nation how severe a judgment
would be passed by the historians of this, the greatest
event in history. Even the remorseless Bismarck
could not bring himself to decree that France, that
chivalrous and srenerous nation, should be crushed bv a
crafty German diplomat at the instigation of the Jews.

Evidently while Bismarck listened to the Jews, the
remembrance of the maledictions uttered against those
who dismembered unhappy Poland haunted him. He
determined that his memory should at least remain
pure from a like stigma, and resolutely refused to
take part in such an affair, though it promised to be
successful.

Baffled in his efforts, Gambetta organized, in con-
nection with a notorious Jew, now one of the foreign
ambassadors of France, the war in Tunis.

The reader has perhaps seen, in books of travel,
descriptions of the Jewesses in Africa, who, half re-
clining upon cushions, hold their hands, covered with
rings, upon their big stomachs of flabby flesh. In-

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coiriHioded by their rotundity, which assumes fright-
ful proportions at the age of thirty, glistening with fat,
these Jewesses have but one passion — to see the heavy
necklaces around their bloated necks grow heavier with
the gold coins that are attached to it.

It was in connection with one of these Jewesses, a
mistress of the aforesaid ambassador, that the plan
was first concocted to force France into war, to mur-
der her soldiers, who longed to return to France after
the time of their enlistment was over, and to sing-
again, at the time of harvest or of vintage, the joyous
songs that lulled them in their infancy.

Is it necessary to recall the frightful scandals that
gave rise to this war, to mention the name of the
Tunisian Bey, who, in return for his complacency to
the lover of his wife, was rewarded with the Cross of
the Legion of Honor ?

Bespect for the feelings of our readers forces us to
pass over this fetid affair in silence, the loathsome de-
tails of which scandal have been published time and
again in the Intransigent.

Before leaving this affair we must briefly describe
the sufferings endured by the French soldiery, solely
that a flock of hungry vultures might fall upon a
country with unparalleled rapacity.

Who has not felt his blood boil on hearing a de-
scription of the march of that little army, under a
burning sky, without a tree for shelter, without
water, and with nothing but a desert before them ?
True, water was carried upon camels, but it was never
at hand when wanted. And when at last it came, it

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was warm and unfit to drink. What else could be
expected of the military contractor of this expedition,
a Jew, Chelma by name, who in a few months pock-
eted a fortune of three million francs ?

The sufferings of the troops seem almost incredible.
There were men that suddenly uttered incoherent
words, or suddenly burst out laughing — they had
become maniacs. Others dropped like a stone.
When lifted they were — dead. A coffin was quickly
improvised, and what a coffin ! Provision boxes were
used into which the body was thrust, and buried in
the sand, where in the night the jackals dug it up
and feasted upon it. Every isolated soldier was
lost. If made prisoner, he was delivered as a toy to
the women of the tribes, who put him to death slowly,
by sticking into his flesh pins reddened in the fire.
" One of my own relatives/' says Drumont, " who
returned dying from this expedition, related to me
the impression of horror which he experienced at the
sight of an officer whom nobody could recognize. The
unfortunate man, with eyes plucked out, ears cut, his
virile parts frightfully mutilated, in vain tried to trace
his name upon a paper with a pencil that was put
into his hand/5 What a picture for the avenging pen
of a great writer.

Who has not read the account of Doctor Lereboullet
respecting the hospitals : " No beds, no physicians,
no medicines. In a pestilential room where the
germs of death floated, appeals, groans, and the
death-rattle mingled with one another. The man
panting there cries unceasingly for water. That

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one is no longer thirsty. He imagines that he
drinks of the clear water of his native rivulet.
In order to taste it with longer draughts, he stretches
out his neck. By one of those associations of ideas
which take hold even of a diseased mind, he thinks
that he is crossing the little hill that leads him
into the village, that he sits near his aged mother,
and all at once he starts up, opens his mouth, and
smiles to his sweetheart — and, without suffering,
he breathes his last. Behold ! the head expresses se-
renity. He seems to sleep, and in his rigid hand he
still clasps the little image of the Virgin, which the
priest who taught him his ABC gave to him at the
time of parting. "

But does not this fetid atmosphere begin to weigh
upon you ? Well, enter the house of the Jew Ca-
mondo, and there perhaps you will find the Jew Mun-
kacsy,* who entertains his guest with petty American

* The following communication was published in the New
York Evening Post, November 9, 1887 :

"CHRIST ON CALVARY.

u To the Editor of the Evening Post. — Sir : Whatever may be
the judgment. of the public as to the merit of Munkacsy's pict-
ures, there can be but one opinion as to the mode of advertis-
ing it. The ' grand old masters/ full of religious faith, and
with profound humility, painted almost on their knees. This
modern artist chooses the most sublime of subjects, a subject
which even art should tremble to approach, and having painted
his picture, hangs it up in the vulgar glare of gaslight, and
blows all the trumpets of modern advertising, summoning the
world to come and stare*

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scandals. If you prefer, Belmont, the correspondent
of the Kothschilds, will give you a description of the
mansion of Baron Hirsch, who, the public press in-
forms us, has just given $20,000,000 to Jewish chari-
ties. There you will find the fountains ever spout-
ing. There you will find the wonders of art embel-
lishing his domain. Life is after all worth living.
The Baron muses over the gains, the millions he made
out of the Tunisian enterprise.

With an expressive shrug of his shoulders, Gam-
betta said before the Senate: " After all, how
many men were killed in the Tunisian War ? Only
1,500 Frenchmen; that is all" The fact remains
that 15,000 is the official figure given by the military
doctor, who remained at his post throughout the war.
"We defy," says Drumont, "any one to contradict
this figure."

"The Mohammedans guard with jealous care every scrap of
paper bearing the sacred name of Allah, but we Christians to-
day walk the streets strewn with handbills on which, in large
letters, the words, ' Christ on Calvary,' lie literally in#the gut-
ters or are trampled under foot. Surely it is time to put a stop
to this profanation ; it is a disgrace to the great city which owes
its best and noblest to that Christian civilization which the
spirit of irreverence and infidelity would soon destroy. B."

We would inform this correspondent that behind the Jew
Munkacsy are a number of Jew speculators, who, by this inde-
cent exhibition "of the most sublime of subjects," scoff at the
Christians while they pocket the shekels. There is a society in
Ness York which a few years ago prevented a Jew from giving
a representation entitled " The Passion Play.5' How is it that
they leave unmolested the present exhibition ?

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A few years ago a syndicate, composed of the Jew,
Edgar May, president of the Franco-Egyptian Bank —
which institution has also a branch in Alexandria,
Egypt, and makes advances to the Fellahs at the mod-
erate interest of thirty-three per cent. — and of the Jews
Dietz-Monin and Bozerian, capitalists, with whom
were joined several other Jews, occupying prominent
political positions, but of the same stamp, planned
the expedition to Tonquin.*

No patriotic or honest reason could have prompted
these Jews to urge France to undertake this expedi-
tion. Their pretext of colonial policy is too absurd
to need any comment. Colonial projects can only
benefit nations that are embarrassed by too great a
population. It is the height of folly for France to
engage in colonial projects, since the number of
births in France is inferior to that of any other great
nation. On the other hand, the fertile land of Alge-
ria, still uncultivated, lies before the very gates of
France, because nobody wants to go there, a fact
which shows the uselessness to France of distant pos-
sessions.

* We have elsewhere shown the tenacity of the Jews to go back
as masters to a place from which they have been once expelled.
At the end of three thousand years the Jews return triumphant
to the land of the Pharaohs, where they once were slaves. They
impose upon the native population tributes truly monstrous.
Mr. Vandenberg published, in 1878, an article, in which he
said that a Jewish bank loaned at one time to the Fellahs the
sum of 1,397,175,000 francs, and at the end of one year the bank
received in return as interest produce, such as wine, fruit and
cotton, representing a value of 522,000,000 francs.

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The Spaniards, the Italians, and the Maltese were
far more numerous in Tonquin than the French.
Again, we must consider that France's commerce with
South America amounts every year close to 920,-
000,000 francs, and she has never troubled herself
with colonies in that quarter. Her commerce with
Algeria amounts to 306,000,000 only, a country which
cost her the lives of so many men and the expenditure
of an enormous amount of money. The total value
of goods ever exported from France in a year to the
French settlements in Oceaniea never exceeded the
sum of 618,567 francs. The amount of goods ex-
ported to all the distant French colonies would not
reach in a year the sum of 47,000,000 francs.

These facts show that in the space of ten years the
inhabitants of Tonquin, who are the poorest people in
Asia, and who live exclusively on rice, would not buy
goods amounting to a million francs.

" I defy,"' said Vice-Ad miral Duperre, a man thor-
oughly acquainted with Tonquin, " anyone to show
me a Frenchman capable of earning in Tonquin, as a
workman, a sufficient amount of money to enable him
to pay his passage back to France. "

M. Alcide Bleton, who was sent to Tonquin by the
minister of the French Xavy, intrusted w^ith a com-
mercial mission, declared, in a published report, that
he saw absolutely nothing that could be exported from
Tonquin or imported into France. All that could be
done, according to him, to make a little money, would
be to construct barracks for the European employees,
and to establish laundries.

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At a time when Germany so sagavely grinds her
teeth, and is a constant menace to France, the idea
of killing the best of soldiers in order to wash the
dirty clothes of the natives of Tonqnin is an exceed-
ingly original conception.

But these arguments have no weight with the Jew.
It was enough that he saw in this expedition a chance
to enrich himself at the expense of the Goy. The
Jews set to work at once. The Jew senators thun-
dered in the Senate : "We will never live to see the
flag insulted. Xational honor above all. We will
never quit Tonquin, even if it would cost us the lives
of 50,000 men.*'

The promoters of the expeditions were still more
enthusiastic. " They were ready to sacrifice their last,
penny for the honor and glory of France. "

A company was formed, a circular was issued, claim-
ing that the company had obtained the right of absolute
control over all the territory in Tonquin, for the space
of ninetv-nine years. Thev promised the construction
of railroads, the oj:>ening of new roads, the establish-
ment of banks and of a steamboat line carrying the
ee proud flag of France.'* Ferry warmly recommended
the patriotic plan submitted to him by w the distin-
guished French financiers, Dietz-Monin, Bozerian,
and the rest of the crowd of Israel.

"Was Ferry bribed ? Xo. The Jews have a way of
their own to obtain a wished-for signature. They
sent to the daughter of Ferry, as well as to the daugh-
ters of other prominent men in the Senate, whose
signatures were desired, a number of dolls, on the

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167

first day of the year, and lo ! these dolls had, by mere
chance, around them diamonds worth not less than
50,000 francs. These luminous diamonds covered a
multitude of their dark designs.

Then came the Jewish press, which announced the
plan in the following words : " The gold in Tonquin
is so abundant that in certain districts the natives
raise ducks solely in order to collect in their excre-
ments— which, in the course of time, have become
valuable guano beds — the gold they have swallowed
while paddling in the rivulets/'

This reminds us of an anecdote we once heard.
Said an Englishman to an American, " I was once
smoking in a field in England and I dropped a match.
The year following the place had become a veritable
forest."

* ' That's nothing, " said the Yankee. 6 6 Out in Texas
you plant a button and in a week you gather a harvest
of newly-made trousers.'7

Proudhon said of the Jews, u They live solely on
what others have produced." We have shown that
the Jew is a negation. He creates nothing, and he
thirsts for everything. He is, therefore, fatally con-
demned to seek where he can find. In other words, in
the purse of the producer. The details of the frauds
practised by the Jew syndicate, of their gigantic swin-
dles, and of the sufferings inflicted upon the innocent
investors, who were led to invest their savings mainly
upon the recommendation of Ferry, are unimagin-
able.

Need we now relate the details of this war, entered

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into without perceptible reason, and actually waged
for some time before it was formally declared ? All
this time Frenchmen died by the thousands. They
were killed by bullets, died of typhus fever, of chol-
era, and succumbed to the climate. The hospitals
were full of people and without medicines. Finally
the whole'ended in the foolish flight before the Chin-
ese at Lang-Son ; a flight calculated to deprive the
French army of the little prestige that still remained
to it.

We are appalled when we reflect that these
things occurred only a few years ago, that human
beings were found who deliberately planned it all, and
that the Assembly was foolish enough to approve.
Nothing, perhaps, could give a clearer idea as to how
easily poor humanity can be gulled and how much it
can endure. These scoundrels who have been the
cause of the death of so many men now quietly enjoy
their ill-gotten millions.

Jules Ferry, at the time when the Lang-Son defeat
was announced, was heartily laughing with Eaynal,
who, it seems, amused him by relating to him the
hideous mutilations that the soldiers suffered. One
would not believe Ferry capable of so much cynicism,
if the official documents of the Assembly on that day
did not expressly mention the fact that Ferry was
there laughing with the Jew Eaynal.

The career and fall of Ferry is one of those pages in
history calculated to move to indignation the reader.
This lying lawyer, who killed more men than a con-
queror, who killed by famine in a defence of the city

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of Paris criminal in its hopelessness, who killed by
unjust court-martials in 1871, who killed by the war
in Tunis and in Tonquin, is now constantly tor-
mented, as by a phantom, with the fixed idea that he
will one day fall living into the hands of the people
who will make him pay well for all the evil he has done.

At the news of the defeat at Lang-Son the masses
seemed paralyzed with disgust. They learned the
truth too late. It is in one of those nervous hours
when all the movement of the city seems to be cen-
tered in the forum, when journalists, compositors,
mechanics, merchants, all the citizens, in fact, with
bleached face and anxious looks speak all at once,
that one realizes how many noble qualities still exist
among the masses of the Aryan type. Then one can
see how the masses realize their responsibility. The
workmen had not read the London Times, which af-
firmed that the Eothschilds had guaranteed the Chinese
loan, and had thus furnished these barbarians with the
arms with which to fight France. Spontaneously,
however, groups of people were formed at 11 A. 3i.
at the corner of Lafitte and Lafayette streets. They
became indignant, they noisily discussed the affair,
and suddenly an ominous cry was heard: "On to
the house of Kothschild," " On to the house of the
traitor."

"Fortunately," says the newspaper Le Ganlois, a
Jew publication, "cool heads intervened and dissuaded
the people from putting their intention into exe-
cution."

We do not share in the opinion of this newspaper,

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but the reader must not fail to notice that almost in-
stinctive manifestation which is like the cry of public
conscience. He must not fail to notice this lucid
moment, this expression of public indignation, which
the newspapers quickly hushed up.

Patriotism still exists at the hearthstone of the
Aryan, even if the Jewish press time and again has
declared that country is only an empty name. It
seemed as if all the proletarians communicated by
thought with the unfortunate soldiers lost thousands
of miles away ; with the soldiers surrounded by
numberless hordes and drowned by the surge of bar-
barians.

In what a tone, a tone stifled almost with tears,
they asked the journalists, whom they supposed knew
something, for news ! How they ran about crying,
and asking of everybody if at least the flags had leen
saved !

The flags ! What is called society troubled itself
very little about them. A veritable flood of feasts and
of balls was announced immediately following the
news of the misfortunes that befell the country.

4 e Easter week," announced Le Figaro, "is the veri-
table ball season." The Jews were wild with joy.
They threw their doors wide open. The papers an-
nounced "a grand bail this evening at Baroness
Hirsclrs," who, in order to celebrate, it seemed, the
victory of the Celestials, wore a laurel wreath. Ma-
dame Henry Sn eider also gave a ball, as did also Ma-
dame Solomon G-oldschmidth, the Rothschilds and all
the other Jews in Paris.

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171

Lang-Son proved a veritable windfall to the Jews,
and the Exchange had found again the eclat of its
former clays.

" One should have seen the Exchange," wrote Oc-
tave Mirbeau, a journalist, "at the sight of which
one's heart was stirred with disgust mingled with in-
dignation. Every time France is in peril, every time
her blood flows from her flanks, the tears from her
eyes, there are thousands of men of prey who fall
upon her, who precipitate themselves upon her body
to gather her blood and her tears, and like hideous
alchemists seek to transform them into gold. From
the recesses of what dens, from the vaults of what
banks, from what galleys, and from what ghettos were
these miserable Jews let loose ? With twisted mouths,
widely tossing arms, eyes fired with the prospect of
rapine, they ran about, trampled upon one another,
trod upon one another, clamoring like barbarians
with cries more deafening than those uttered by the
Chinese victors.

■( These Jews wished that the disaster had been more
complete, the defeat more crushing. They spread
sinister news, as if the reality were not already suffi-
ciently painful, and the sorrow cast upon the city
sufficiently mournful. It was not enough for them
that our army had been butchered, and that not a
soldier would perhaps return to the country that now
wept for him. They invented stories of revolt in
Paris, they swore that men were killing one another
in the Assembly and in the boulevards. In propor-
tion as stocks fell and the government securities

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went down, the faces of these brigands were illumined
with a smile akin to the one seen in the faces of the
Jew vultures who, after the battle, amid the broken
cannon and the twisted guns, rob the wounded and
despoil the bodies. I swear that I, for a moment,
wished to see the cannon sweep down this band of
jackals, and to let fall, one by one, the stones and the
columns of thai cursed building, the Exchange, that
insolently rises like a perpetual insult and treason to
the country.

"And during the time when these, men revelled in
pleasure, our heroic soldiers, without succor, without
hoj^e, were fighting, perhaps, their ferocious enemy in
his native defiles, where soon their bodies will lie in the
burning sun of a pestilential atmosphere.'5

The reader must, by this time, have come to the
conclusion that when the Jew rises the Gentile falls,
and when the Jew falls the Gentile rises.

The Jews to-day possess one-half of the capital in
circulation upon the earth. Kobody was heard to
offer a word of protest when the Jew banker Stern
said in a well-known club : " I do not know how the
devil the Christians will manage to live ten years
hence. "

Iso man was there to reply to this cowardly remark :
"Five hundred resolute men in the avenues of Xew
York or Paris, assisted by a regiment surrounding the
banks of the Jews, will teach you how the Christians
will be able to exist."

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173

THE EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS IN ALGERIA.

We read in an article published in The Political
and Literary Revieiv, that Gordon, the apostle-sol-
dier, during his travels in Egypt, met the Jew Reiuaeh,
with whom, as it often happens in travelling, the
Christian hero joined in conversation, nor did Gordon
scruple to express his opinion of what he thought of
Disraeli, and of all other statesmen of his kind, whom
he called "mountebanks."

Mountebanks is the precise word to be applied to
politicians of the nature of Gambetta, Lasker and
Cremieux. The diplomacy pursued by men like Rich-
elieu, Colbert, Bismarck, is simple. In the diplomacy
pursued by the Jews one constantly finds a formidable
display of pompous words, such as liberty, equality
and fraternity, that conceal plans to further individual
interests — in a word, a semblance of emancipation and
of amelioration, which invariably means the most in-
tolerable persecution and the most impudent extortion
of money.

Among these mountebanks the Jew Cremieux, who
only a few years ago held the helm of the French
ship of State, which he well-nigh succeeded in swamp-
ing, occupied a place apart. Gambetta, with his in-
exhaustible loquacity and his frothy allurements, was
withal a demonstrative personage, or, as Drumont
describes him, " a showy being, like a doorkeeper, con-
stantly occupied in exhibiting his form, which he
padded out with cotton."

Never has a Jew shown himself more odiously in-

174 THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

different to the interest of " country," more thoroughly
occupied in furthering his own interests and those of
his race, than did that miserable old Jew, Crenrieux,
during the dark hours of France, at the time of the
late war, when he promulgated the decree ordering
the emancipation of the Jews in Algeria.

Cremieux could not have been ignorant of the trouble
he was about to make, in a country where the greatest
possible -care should have been exercised to keep it at
peace, so as not to weaken unhappy France, powerless
as she was to resist the enemy that oppressed her on
all sides. He w^as, on the contrary, admirably in-
formed of the situation ; he knew the hostility that ex-
isted between the Jews and the Arabs whom, in order
to arouse, during the campaign in Italy, one had only
to say to them : " Yonder enemy in front are Jews."
Cremieux, by issuing a decree naturalizing the Al-
gerian Jews, purely and simply betrayed France while
serving the interest of his race.

In 1870, at the time when the decree wras issued,
this measure had a character peculiarly odious. The
Arabs had heroically done their duty during the. war.
These " black devils/' as the Prussians called them,
were always in the thickest of the fight, and won the
admiration of the enemy at Wissembourg and at
Woerth.

The French general, Albert Duruy, related the fan-
tastic impressions which these Arabs produced wdth
their savage cries, their joy at the mere mention of
the word gunpowder, their manner of rushing forward
like tigers. When at Wissembourg the scattered

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 175

sharp-shooters received orders to maintain their posi-
tion till the last moment, in order to protect the re-
treat, General Duruy involuntarily bent his head
under a hail of balls. Suddenly he felt a hand of iron
upon his shoulder, and a -thundering voice exclaim-
ing, "Lower down, lower down." It was an Arab
who smiled, as if laughing at danger, and displayed
his white teeth, which shone with peculiar light in
his copper-colored face.

These Arabs, who so heroically fought on the side
of France, after having for so long a time fought
against her, merited some signal reward. Eome
emancipated the slaves who had fought in her behalf
during the social war, and some proclamation, honor-
ing with the title of friends and citizens those who
had shown themselves worthy of the name, would
have produced a lasting effect upon the Arabs in
Algeria. But the Jews of France did not consider
the matter in this light.

By the side of the Arab who fights, there lives in
Algeria an abject race which exists only by shameful
traffic, which grinds down to the uttermost the unfortu-
nate Arab who falls into its claws, which enriches it-
self by robbing its fellow-men. It is to this dastardly
race that the sympathies of a government, ruled over
. by a Jew, of a Christian government, were enlisted.

What sort of being is the Jew in Algeria ? Noth-
ing of what we see here can give us an 'adequate idea,
because Jewish usury, which has attained in certain
countries incredible proportions, cannot be compared
with the usury practised in Algeria upon the Arabs.

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A letter of the late Emperor Xapoleon, addressed
by him to Marshal Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta and
Governor-General of Algeria, may be cited as present-
ing one instance in a thousand :

" In the month of Xovember, 1861, two farmers of
the tribe of Djebela (district of Mostaganein), sorrow-
fully tried by several consecutive years of drought,
"were in want of grain. The principal members of
this district, together with the two farmers, applied
for aid to an Israelite of Mostaganein. The Jew con-
sented to give them what they wanted at the exorbi-
tant price of thirty- six francs the quintal (hundred-
weight). This was to be returned to him not in
money but m produce, on the year following, at mar-
ket value. Xow, in the month of August, 1862, grain
was worth seven francs the hundredweight, and the
people of Djebela had to render him nearly six
quintals for one. In other words, they had to bor-
row at 600 per cent.''

The following article was published in the news-
paper La France, in July, 1884, at the time of the
Semitic troubles in Algeria : " Usury is really fright-
ful. The Turcos and the Spahis, on the eve of re-
ceiving their pay, borrow of the Jews one franc,
agreeing to pay two on the following day. This con-
tinued for a year would make 100 francs cost the
borrower 3,650. Owing to these acts the Jew is looked
upon with scorn and contempt by the native Arab,
which is easily understood. He can enter at any hour
of day or night into the tent or the house of an Arab.
Their women will not even take the trouble or think

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 177

of veiling themselves, which is a strict Mohammedan
custom. No woman of the Turkish faith ever ap-
pears before a stranger unyeiled. But these women
do not consider the Jew to be a man. An Arab would
deem himself forever dishonored were he to kill a J ew.
If an attack is made upon a caravan, the Jews have
only to make themselves known, and their lives are
at once spared."

At Bou-Saada one may see the Jews squatting
down upon filthy hides covered with grease, spying
for the Arab just as a spider watches for the fly.
They call him, surround him, and try to loan him
money, for which they plead with him to sign a cer-
tain paper. The poor Arab feels the danger, hesitates,
and refuses. But his passion for drink urges him
on. The Jew shows the money with peculiar
signs that a Jew only can make. The Arab thinks
of the good times he can have with the money thus
proffered. He yields, grasps the piece and signs the
greasy paper, which may well be called his death-war-
rant. At the end of six months he will owe 10 francs;
at the end of the year, 20, and at the expiration of
three years, 600. Then the Jew will sell the poor
Arab's farm if he has one ; otherwise his camel or
his horse ; in a word, everything he may possess.
Even the chiefs of the Arabs rarely escape the claws
of these rapacious devils, who are the scourge, the
disease, the never-healing wound of the colony, " the
great obstacle in the way of the civilization of the
Arab,"

When the French army is called upon to reduce to

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subjection a rebellious tribe, a horde of Jews follows
it, buying for a mere nothing the booty captured,
which they sell back to the Arab as soon as the French
army has withdrawn. If, for instance, a flock of six
thousand sheep is seized, in a far-away district, the
question arises what is to be done with these sheep ?
Drive them into the city ? They would die on the
way, for how can they be fed when there is no water
in the territory that must be crossed ? Again, it
would require a vast number of men to guard such a
flock. Perhaps twice as many as the entire army
counts. Kill them ? "What a massacre, what a loss !
The Jews are there, who plead, who beg, who ask to
buy them at two francs each — sheep that are well
worth twenty francs apiece. Their wish is granted.
Xext day the original proprietors redeem the sheep
at five francs each.

The Jew is master of all the south of Algeria.
There is hardly an Arab that is not indebted to a Jew,
for the Arab does not like to pay what he owes. He
prefers to renew his due bill at a hundred or two hun-
dred per cent. The Jew throughout the south lives
only by his unlawful usury, and the real merchants of
the place are the Mozabits.

Mr. Seclus, in his admirable book, France, Algeria,
Colonies, thus speaks of the Algerian Jew :

" The Algerian Jews have been naturalized in llocJc,
at the time when we were struggling against the dis-
ciplined armies of Germany. Certainly the Jews did
not merit it, occupied as they are solely with usury^
jobbery and swindle. Not one among them ploughs,

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waters the garden or prunes the vines, while very few
are artisans among these descendants of the supplanter
Esau. Not one of them ever risked his life in battle,
like those brave Arabians, who won for themselves,
time and again, the name of hero while fighting the
fortunes of France."

Were these Jews, at any rate, ever noted for their
love of France ? Xever ! At the beginning of- the
conquest of Algeria they served as spies, both for the
French and for the Arabian hero, El Hadj Abd-El
Kader, keeping themselves in an attitude of neutral-
ity, until at last fortune favored the side of France.

While the poor Arabians were sacrificing their
lives in behalf of France, during the Prussian War,
the Jews in Algeria, on the contrary, rejoiced at
her defeat with the most indecent cynicism. At
the news of the disaster of Sedan, the Jews were, so
to speak, intoxicated with joy, stamped their feet with
happiness and danced in the streets. A touching
incident occurred at that time. The bust of the un-
fortunate Emperor was dashed by the Jews upon the
pavement, when a few native Arabs picked up the pieces
reverentially. What a spectacle, to see the sovereign
who possessed a beautiful kingdom, left only with a few
faithful Arabs, who still remembered that he once
paid them a visit, surrounded with all the splendor of
power, took an interest in them, and earnestly sought
to free them from the usury of the Jews ! The above
facts, however, only strengthened the Jew Cremieux
in his vile design. He felt, as he himself expressed
it, " Joyful as he never before felt in his life, being

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enabled to grant to thousands of his co-religionists the
title of French citizens."

The Arabs, of course, revolted, and Admiral Guey-
don says : "This decree was the cause of the insur-
reetion. The natives were extremely angry. They
were astounded to see raised to the dignity of French
citizens that scurrilous people whom they always
considered as servile, contemptible and miserable
cowards. ' Why should this preference be shown
to them?' they justly exclaimed. 'Have the Jews
ever, like us, shed their blood in the Crimea, in Italy
or in Mexico ? Have they left 10,000 prisoners in
Germany ? 3 "

Another French admiral remarked : " When the
Arabs were informed of the Cremieux decree, their
wrath was changed into profound scorn for the French.
The proud spirit of the Arab was roused to its highest
pitch at the idea that the Jew was preferred to him.
The French they considered in the same light as the
Jews. The insurrection broke out when the Mussul-
man population found out, toward the end of Janu-
ary, 1871, that the Jews were chosen to perform the
functions of jurymen. Then only did they under-
stand that they might become the inferior of the Jews
in the eye of the law. Then did the brave chief of the
Arabs, Mokrani, summon his Arabs to arms, and send
back the cross of the Legion of Honor, an act by
which he made it known that he preferred death
rather than submission to the affront cast upon his
race by placing the Jews above the Arabs."

Side by side with the Jew Cremieux, who betrayed

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181

the trust that France reposed in him, let us place the
noble, loyal figure of the Arab, Sidi Mohamed Ben-
Ahmed- el Mokrani, the enemy of France. Mokrani
may be considered the complete personification of
those grand Arab lords whom Fromentin so admirably
described in his books.

Passionately fond of beautiful arms and spirited
horses, warlike and majestic in the stirrups, brave and
dignified as they bade welcome to their guests at the
entrance of their tents, pompous and full of display
when they treated with the French officers, these
Arab chiefs, after years of resistance, had been fas-
cinated, as it were, by the bravery of the French
soldier. They were proud to wear upon their cloaks
the Legion of Honor, this flower to-day withered, this
emblem to-day prostituted, but which formerly signi-
fied courage, talent or virtue. A terrible enemy, a
sincere friend, Mokrani, by a feat of arms worthy of
the heroic times, won, in a hand-to-hand contest, the
Cross of the Legion of Honor, by killing, with his
own hand, the agitator Bou Barghla, surrounded
though he was by his partisans. When a French
officer handed to him the decree of the Jew Cremieux,
he spat upon it and returned it to the envoy with the
words, " I shall never obey a Jew."

This man, who had in him the most generous in-
stincts, refused to attack France while at war with Ger-
many. He chivalrously waited before declaring war
until the French could dispose of all their forces.
It was then that he returned his decoration to General
Augeraud, and, while he courteously thanked him

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for the past consideration shown to him, he now
declared war, the note ending in the following
words :

" If I continued to serve France, it was because she
was at war with Prussia, and I did not wish to increase
the difficulties of the situation. To-day, however,
peace has been established, and I mean also to estab-
lish my freedom."

Mokrani fell like a hero. He sought his own death,
for he was unwilling to serve France now so degraded,
or to fight a country which he so loved — a country of
which he had been the guest. It is an Arab custom
that an unbroken friendship mast ever exist between
men who have partaken of the same food. To break
bread with an Arab is to cement a friendship which
will remain unbroken until death. To make sure of *
his death he left — this hero without an equal— his
horse, which perhaps might have snatched his master
from peril. He met the French Zouaves, and, at tbe
head of his hesitating column, marched forward, until
a ball struck him upon the forehead.

Sidi Mokrani kept his word. He did not obey the
Jews.

Among the French soldiers, whom the fatality of
the times had reduced to the sad necessity of drawing
the sword in behalf of those who live by theft and
usury, many wept and perhaps envied the fate of the
brave Arab chief.

It was the sons of Christian mothers who were
obliged to sacrifice their lives in order to assure to
the usurers, the thieves of Algeria, the rights that

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183

had been accorded to them, but which they them-
selves did not have the courage to defend.

General Bouzet says : "The Jew cannot become a
soldier. War is not at all his element. But if the
Jews are arrant cowards, they are without pity. The
Arabs who had surrendered themselves, trusting to
the pledged and written word of the French officers and
generals, were murdered by the Jews, and thus the
renown and good repute of the French army was vili-
fied and destroyed forever. "

A poor Arab had preserved on his person the letter
of pardon written by the French general, and believ-
ing that a French soldier would never break his word,
he handed it to the officer who commanded the platoon
of execution. The officer, instead of obeying the voice
of honor, instead of executing some of the miserable
Jews in place of the conquered heroes, gave the word
" fire/' in obedience to the command of the Jew Cre-
mieux, a command which violated the pledge of the
French officers. The poor Arab fell, waving over
his head, as if by way of silent protestation, the lie
written by the Frenchman. What is still more revolt-
ing is the fact that the brave Arabs were excluded from
the amnesty that was granted to the other natives.
Amnesty was granted to the Jews who had assassi-
nated, pillaged, bumed ; but no amnesty was extended
to the men who fought for the sake of securing their
liberty.

It is interesting to see how this question was finally
disposed of by the National Assembly. Do you think
that among the Gentiles who form the majority,

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there was found a man to rise and point out with
scorn the fanatic old Jew, Cremieux, who in the in-
terest of his own people had caused the frightful in-
surrection that cost the lives of so many Frenchmen?
Do you imagine that a voice was raised to render
homage to the Arabians killed in the war with Ger-
many, for the defense of a country that had deprived
them of liberty ? If you do, you are sadly mistaken.
No one dared to displease the Jews, no one dared to
proclaim the truth and to show things exactly as they
are. The people of to-day are different from the peo-
ple of old, who met death while affirming their opin-
ions.

Cremieux succeeded. He took advantage of the
disasters of France to push forward his own people.
It is the peculiar method of Jewish diplomacy, such
as they have continuously pursued since 1791. Be it
war, peace, insurrection, reaction, they seek always,
their own aggrandizement, and they constantly advance
while the Gentiles recede.

Before dying, Cremieux expressed the wish that the
following simple but eloquent inscription should be
placed upon his tomb :

' 'To Isaac- Ad olpbe Cremieux,
President of the Universal Israelite Alliance/'

The great work of Cremieux was L' Alliance Israe-
lite Universelle, and he was right in saying that this
institution was the most beautiful and the most won-
derful ever founded in modern times.

The Alliance, such as it actually exists, dates only

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS.

185

from the month of July, 1860. Its first great assem-
bly took place on the 30th of March, 1861, but in
reality the Alliance had at that time already been in
existence for many years.

The Constitution of the Assembly is simple. Every
Jew can become a member of the Alliance upon the
payment of the modest fee of six francs a year.

The Alliance is governed by a Central Committee,
composed of sixty members. The Central Commit-
tee resides in Paris, and its members are chosen for
nine years by the entire membership of the Alliance.
They in turn elect every year a President, two vice-
Presidents, a Treasurer and a Secretary, who manage
the affairs of the Alliance.

A lodge, so to speak, may be instituted in every
place where the society numbers ten members, and it
has liberty to act as its members see fit in all purely
local matters, for which, however, the lodge must as-
sume the entire responsibility.

The lodges correspond with the Central Commit-
tee, to which they communicate all matters of interest
to the Jews, and in return they are kept informed of
the progress of the Alliance.

Mr. Moses A. Dropsie, of Philadelphia, is an honor-
ary member of the Central Committee, and Mr. Isaacs
S. Myer, of New York, is also an honorary member of
the same Central Committee.

The capital of the Alliance is of course unlimited,
but the ostensible figures at the disposal of the associa-
tion are given as one million francs. With few ex-
ceptions, and for obvious reasons, the entire European

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press is friendly to the Alliance. But the Jews have a
hundred other papers that address themselves solely
to the sons of Israel, and a few of which we cite be-
low. Les Archives Israelites, L'Univers Israelite of
Paris ; La Farnille de Jacob, of Avignon ; The Jewish
Chronicle, The Jewish World, of London ; The Jewish
Messenger, of New York ; The Wiener Israelii, The
Lebanon, of Mayence ; The Yolhszeitung, The Yochen-
schrift, of Magdebourg; The Allgemeine Zeitung des
Judenthams, The Vessilo Israelitico, of Casale ; The
Corriere Isrealilico, V Educator 'e - Israelitico, TJie
Famiglia Israelitica, Ben Chanonia, Ben Hanania,
Der Orient, The Maggio, V Ariel of Jerusalem, The
Speranza, of Smyrna, The Jaetz, of Bucharest, etc.

The Alliance is absolutely foreign to the idea of a
country in the sense we attach to the word. A few
words of Cremieux sum up the spirit of the institu-
tion more clearly than we could ourselves express
it :

"The Alliance is not a French, German or English
Alliance, but an Alliance of the Jews. This is the
reason why it progresses, and why it prospers. "

L' 'Alliance Israelite treats as an equal with the great
European powers. It sends notes, protestations, and
often an ultimatum, which sovereigns receive wTith ex-
emplary docility.

As soon as a Jew is imprisoned for theft, even in
the remotest corner of our planet, the ambassadors,
the consuls, the dragomans become excited, aroused,
exchange notes, and protest. This is the reason why
the Jews move heaven and earth to have in the Diplo-

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matic Corps men of their own race, as, for instance,
Eoustan, the French Minister at Washington.

The sacrifices that the J ews are ever ready to make
for the good of Israel may also be^een in the princely
manner with which they have endowed and founded
schools in the Orient. It is certain that this money
has been obtained from the Gentiles, but the actions of
the Jew must not be judged by our ideas, with which
we have nothing in common.

From the profits made on Turkish bonds, Maurice
de Hirsch gave a million to the Jewish schools in the
Orient ; from the profits made on the Honduras af-
fair, the Jew Bischoffsheim founded a school for girls,
known as " The Bischoffsheim Institute/' etc.

The Jews have to-day in Syria, Morocco, Tunis,
Mesopotamia and Jerusalem 36 schools, with more
than 7,000 scholars, of whom 5,400 are boys, and 700
girls.

BAEOIS" HIESCH. — THE UPPER CLASS OF JEWS.

Baron Hirsch lives in Paris. He is the true type
of the cosmopolite Jew. He occupies a better social
position than the Eothschilds. He is the Baron, if
you please, while the Eothschilds are the Barons. The
Eothschilds claim to present a collectivity, the Baron
keeps aloof, stands aloof, and even abstains from a
too close association with his own family, which he
leaves, as it were, in the obscurity of twilight. He is
the Sultan, and his family is his harem.

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airs of the Eothschilds, whom one hesitates to ap-
proach eyen when he meets them in the same parlor.

A self-satisfied parvenu, Hirsch is infinitely more
open, more plain-doling, easier in his manners than
the Princes of Israel, in a word, less ridiculous. He
is, no doubt, insolent, but his insolence is bantering
and familiar. He has a puffed, red face, wide, dilat-
ing nostrils, and he enjoys life, when he is not a vic-
tim to the liver complaint, so common among the
Jews. He is a good sort of fellowT, with a grain of
raillery.

This difference of manners noticeable between him
and the Eothschilds is easy to be explained. The
Eothschilds have inherited a social position that was
achieved by their parents, who experienced the first
rebuffs. Thev believe themselves to be scions of the
aristocracy, "to belong to the aristocracy." Hirsch,
on the contrary, believes that the aristocracy belongs
to him.

Hirsch has, unassisted, step by step, by his own
exertions, gained that place in the fashionable world
that he occupies to-day. He knows the current price
of every conscience.

Like Bismarck and Gambetta, Hirsch also is a
despiser of man, but the contempt the Baron feels is
unalloyed.

If Bismarck truly estimates all the cowardly acts of
the diplomats and politicians who kneel before him,
he cannot and does not disregard the noble traits of
humanity when he thinks of the thousands of obscure
heroes who have sacrificed themselves for the glory of

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189

Germany. If Gambetta had around him the most
contemptible examples of human servility, he was not
forgetful of the fact that in the beginning of his career
many disinterested and guileless men supported him,
believing that they were assisting in the triumph of a
principle. Hirsch never in his life has seen a human
being that has applied to him for any other purpose
than to ask for money.

Hirsch has arisen in proportion as France has been
dragged down. Only a few years ago. even the re-
spectable middle classes scornfully refused his invita-
tations, but to-day the noblest aristocrats feel happy in
ascending the famous steps of his palace which the
architect signed just as Raphael might have signed
one of his masterpieces — Emile Peyre Fee.

It was on the top of these steps that the Baron said
one day to his son, while looking down upon the
dukes, princes, and marquises who were ascending
them : " Twenty years hence they will all be either
our sons-in-law or our janitors."

• • • • • •

There are a, few persons who look upon the house
of Eothschild in the same light as that in which the
old French nobility formerly looked upon the royal
house of France.

It is a bizarre and curious destiny, this destiny of
the Rothschilds, a family that for the present we will
touch upon only as respects their social connections.

AYe have already mentioned the eloquent but laconic
shrug of the Duchess d'Angouleme, at the proposal
made to her to admit Mme. Eothschild to her parlor.

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It was necessary to invoke the aid of all the Euro-
pean diplomats in order to obtain for the Kothschilds
admittance, not to the court (had this happened all
the chamberlains would have forthwith sent in their
resignations) but to the receptions held in the Tuile-
ries during great festive days, and to which, as a matter
of fact, respectable men have never been refused ad-
mittance.

Three times the head ushers refused admittance to
the Kothschilds when they attempted to enter the
Tuileries on those festive occasions ; three times they
repeated the attempt, with an engaging smile, as if
nothing had ever happened.

We produce the interesting details of a little episode
in the case of Esther-Kebecca de Eothschild that oc-
curred not many years ago.

"Gne of the modern lights of ancient Zion, the
wife, daughter and sister of honest Israelites, devoted
to the worship of the golden calf^ believed herself en-
titled to treat kings as her equals.

" She ordered her horses to be harnessed, and herself
to be driven to the Tuileries. But there — cruel dis-
appointment ! — she was refused admittance.

" Stung to the quick, she returned home. Tears
flowed from her eyes. ' Jerusalem/ she cried, 6 Jeru-
salem, what an offense to your people ! ' Extraordi-
nary couriers were sent immediately to the courts of
Germany to make known this great event. Kings
were agitated, councils were summoned, and diplo-
mats discussed the affair. Metternich seized his pen.
The ambassador of Austria hastened to the Tuileries.

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Finally pride yielded — the double doors opened, and
the baroness entered the charmed circle. Then every-
where Israel was joyous. The mountains leaped like
rams, the hills like lambs, the harp, which was left
hanging on the willows, quivered anew under the
fingers of the daughters of Zion. The chosen people
once more celebrated the passage of the Red Sea.

"Speaking of the Red Sea, it reminds us that red
is the color that the circumcised Croesus is partial to,
and it is in a red uniform, adorned with the epaulets of
colonel, that James is in the habit of assisting in all the
national festivities. His faithful Rebecca, the chosen
one of his heart, the angel of his affections, lately ac-
companied him to the ball given by the city. This
pearl of Israel was set between two Christian diamonds
that shone so brilliantly that they dimmed all her
eclat/'

These sentiments of repulsion lasted for a long time.
In 1846 it was proposed to give at Baden a ball in honor
of the recent arrival of a foreign potentate. A com-
mittee of three was appointed to regulate details, among
whom was Maurice de Haber. The other two refused
to have for a colleague a Jew, although this colleague
was Haber, the millionaire banker of Cologne, and also
allied to the family of a marshal of France, to the family
of Grouchy. M. cle Haber sent his seconds, but the two
gentlemen refused to fight with him, although they
expressed their willingness to do so with any one of his
friends. They considered it a disgrace to cross swords
with a Jew.

" The strange feature of the affair," said the Ar-

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drives Israelites, "was that ML cie Haber no longe?
belonged to Judaism, but to Protestantism. Mile, de
Haber, his daughter, was a convert to Catholicism
for the sole purpose of marrying M. de Grouchy. J'

Jewish tenacity and Jewish patience in enduring af-
fronts, and the Jews' manner of feigning not to be aware
of them, are the causes of their social success. James
Rothschild the elder was invited into society much as
a clown would be invited. He amused people with
his stories and puns.

He was niggardly in the extreme. One day a
gentleman went to the elder Dumas to ask for a loan
of five hundred francs. The generous old man was, to
use his own expression, " dry." The matter, however,
was urgent. Dumas took his pen and wrote to the
Baron James Eothschiid a letter sparkling with wit,
asking the loan of twenty-five louis. The man of mill-
ions did not even reply to him. A few months later
the autograph mania struck Paris.

" Then these papers have a value, have they?"
asked the Baron, of a friend.

" That depends."

"Let me see, T have one that I will show you.'' He
produced that of Dumas. Immediately they offered
him ten louis for it, which he accepted.

Dumas, however, avenged himself by a witty saying.
One day, at a fair given for charitable purposes, a lady
asked the Baron to put something into the charity
platter.

"But I have already put in something," said the
financier.

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193

"I did not see you," said the lady, "but I believe
you."

"And I," said Dumas, " saw him, but I do not be-
lieve him."

Even his co-religionists censured his greediness and
avarice. Les Archives Israelites tells us of a lesson
that he received from Marcus Prague, a very zealous
Israelite.

One day during the Yom-Kippour James Eothschild
was requested to bring out the Sepher from the Ark.
He asked Marcus Prague to take care of his prayer-
book. The Baron noticed that the latter examined
with interest his prayer-book, which was splendidly
bound.

" My Machsor seems to please you," said he. " How
much will you give me for it ? "

"How, Baron," replied Prague, who was a zealous
follower of the law, " in such a place and upon such
a day would you transact business ? "

He never heeded rebuffs. The following severe les-
son was once given him by the distinguished aristo-
crat, d' Or say :

One day the Baron was playing whist at a gentle-
man's house, and accidentally let a louis fall on the
floor. Immediately he stopped playing, seized a
candle from the table and was about to hunt for his
louis.

"Do not disturb yourself, Baron," said one of the
gentlemen present, who was no other than d'Orsay,
"pray put the candle on the table. I will give you a
light." And he quietly lit on the candle a bank-note
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of a thousand francs, with which he assisted the Baron
to find his louis.

To-day, however, the Rothschilds do not fear to
meet an aristocrat of the independent spirit of d/Or-
say.

Aristocracy, at least such as figures in news-
papers, is literally groveling at the feet of the Roths-
childs, the Seligmans, the Belmonts and others of
the same class. The aristocrats deem themselves
specially honored when they are entertained by these
Jews.

This degradation is, however, more common among
the Americans and the French, for we know that in
Russia and Germany the Jews are seldom admitted
into the refined circles of society.

In the beginning of 1884 Madame Ephrussi went
to St. Petersburg, and, owing to importunities and in-
fluence set to work long before her arrival there, the
Empress of Russia was prevailed upon to permit
Madame Ephrussi to be presented to her at the Winter
Palace. "The Master of Ceremonies," relates the
Political Correspondence published in Vienna, "asked
how he should introduce the Jewess to her Majesty.

" c You will introduce her to me/ said the Em-
press, 6 when she gets ready to leave.' " •

Consequently the daughter of Alphonse de Roths-
child (Madame Ephrussi) was presented to the Em-
press when she was about to leave the salon where the
Empress was entertaining several ladies with her
well-known gracefulness. As for Madame Eirphrussi,
who on that day was covered with a veritable mine of

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195

rubies, the Empress did not even look at her or ex-
change a word with her.

A few years ago the Austrian Government, which,
by the way, is financially in the hands of the Israel-
ites, refused to receive A. A. Keiley as Minister from
the United States, because he was married to a Jew-
ess.

We have already seen how the German officers re-
ceived the son of Bieichroeder. We give below an ac-
count of the manner in which the German correspond-
ent of the newspaper La France describes the recep-
tion accorded to the daughter of Eothschild by Berlin
society, in March, 1884.

?* Speaking of anti-Semitism," he writes, 66 here is a
hitherto unpublished story now going the rounds of
the salons of Berlin, The daughter of Eothschild, the
banker, was presented this winter at court, but at the
first ball that occurred there, nobody paid her any at-
tention or exchanged a word with her. In short, she
was ignored by everybody ; not even an invitation to
dance was given to her, at which, upon her return home,
she shed bitter tears. Nevertheless she again made
her appearance at the next ball given at the Old Castle,
where she again met with exactly the same reception.

"At the third ball of the court the hereditary
. Prince of Germany took pity on the young Jewess and
ordered an officer to invite her to dance.

" ' By order of his Highness, the Grown Prince/ said
the latter to Miss Eothschild, 1 1 have to ask you for
the next quadrille.5

"The daughter of the banker who taxed France

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five billions in 1871 accepted with pleasure such an
invitation."

The incense burned before these Jews in a measure
explains how races degrade themselves. Kome saw a
similar degeneration. Juvenal relates how the patri-
cians, whose ancestors had conquered the world, begged
for a place at the table "of the sons of slaves who had
enriched themselves.

To enter the house of Rothschild is, in the estima-
tion of some, the equivalent of being presented at
court, although the Jews receive those who visit them
with contempt. Count Vasili, in his Recollectio7is of
the Society in Berlin says of Bleichroeder : " True,
he will oblige his fellow-man, but the banker experi-
ences a devilish pleasure in making the recipient feel
the weight of his favor. He takes special pleasure in
humiliating him with his vulgar familiarity."

Baron Alphonse is only fifty-seven years old, but he
looks like a man of seventy. He is a small man, with
whitish side whiskers, and with a few scattered hairs
upon his head. He personifies the premature decrep-
itude of his race. What is striking in his physiog-
nomy is the blankness of look, the continual blinking
of his eyes. A foreign diplomat once said : "It would
seem that the metallic reflection of the gold that that
man has contemplated through life has ruined his
sight, as it often happens with workmen who weave
cloth of a particularly fine tissue."

Alphonse, who is Very haughty in manner, has,
nevertheless, what may be termed popular instincts.
He likes to go about Paris incognito, and passes him-

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197

self off for a photographer with the shop-girls and
flower-girls, in whose society he finds a peculiar charm.

His brother Edmund is the real type of the Jew
shopkeeper. He has a reddish beard, and is given to
ogling the fair sex with an impertinent and vulgar air.

He looks like a man who is constantly occupied in
searching for something he cannot find.

The other brother, G-ustave, with his chestnut beard
and tall stature, would present comparatively a distin-
guished appearance, if he knew how to enter a room
and how to leave it. He affects a still more reserved
demeanor than the rest of the familv. His wife is
arrogant beyond description.

Every member of the family is disagreeable and
crotchety. Some of them suffer from an affection of
the spinal column ; this is specially true of Edmund.
Others, like Nathaniel, lose their sight at an early
age. He is wheeled about in a little carriage through
those magnificent apartments, the luxury of which
for him no longer exists. Like all Jews, the Eoths-
childs are ill-bred, morose, aggressive, and in the
midst of their opulence they have the misery that
comes from satiety. They have nothing to stimu-
late them, no motive for action. They have aimed
to enslave society, and after having attained their ob-
ject, they feel that society is. dying from the effects of
their deleterious breath, and that they have only a
dead body in their hands.

Alphonse indulges in 'a sort of bitter humor and of
cutting irony in his intercourse with society, which
he thoroughly despises, and now and then his con*

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tempi becomes apparent in the disobliging and vulgar
allusions that he flings at those present.

Let us now describe how, in reality, the interior oi
the house of these modern kings of the Jews looks.

The houses are built like theaters or strongholds,
and are securely barricaded inside.

The World, of London, published a few years ago
interesting details respecting one of the Kothschild's
mansions, in St. Florentin Street : " Baron Alphonse
de Rothschild has just finished the improvements in
his house on. Florentin Street, and it now looks like a
veritable fortress. There are a number of strong iron
cases built into the walls, and at the mere touch of a
button the rich bric-a-brac, and other ornaments
hanging upon the walls, drop into these cases. Each
picture is in a morocco case, so that in an emergency
all can be packed within an hour."

But would they have the time to pack ?

Their mansion at Versailles was built under the
supervision of the English architect, Paxton, but as
the great French architect, Delorme, has pointed out,
Paxton utterly failed to erect a building that harmo-
nizes externally with the climate, the sky, and the hab-
its of the French people, and the result of his work is
one of these queer-looking castles so often seen in
England.. The Versailles mansion seems expatriated.

The interior is more interesting. After traversing
a large vestibule, the ceiling of which is gorgeously
ornamented, one enters a small room where there are
a few fine paintings by Philippe Eousseau. Then one
passes into the large dining-room, which presents a

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pleasing appearance with its commodious arm-chairs
upholstered with red velvet. The surprises, how-
ever, begin when one enters into the magnificent
parlor, called the parlor of Louis XVI. One sees
ranged before one's eyes all the wonders of genius that
agents throughout the world could collect. There
one sees masterpieces of art, carved furniture and
tables by the most renowned makers. Artistic bronzes
of the finest pattern and workmanship adorn this
charming room, over which is a ceiling decorated by
Henry Levy. In the middle stands, as a prophet, the
incomparable harpsichord that once belonged to Marie
Antoinette, an object that one regrets to see in the
hands of these Jews, A little dark side room now
attracts one's attention. It is the oratory, a room de-
voted to prayer. It is a very simple room, having for
ornament onlv the rolls of Thora and a candelabrum of
seven branches. Isext comes the family parlor, which
is also called the Parlor of the Leathers of Cordova.
It owes its name to the superb hangings of embossed
leather, representing the triumph of Mardochee.
These leathers, which are perfectly preserved, came
originally from Flanders. They were bought, no
doubt, from some Spanish lord. They are very curi-
ous specimens of the embossed, gilded leathers of
which Cervantes so often speaks. There is in the
room also a magnificent table cover worked with silver
thread, a most interesting and costly article.

One's attention is now attracted to a few books in
an ebony case, at the top of which is a wonderfully
carved elephant.

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Desirous to ascertain who are the friends, the lit-
erary acquaintances of these people, one goes to the
library. • One finds there Paxil de Kock, Soulie,
Pigault-Lebrun, Eugene Sue and Jacob's History of
France. What an insight these books give one into
the tastes of these people and of those who visit them !

Let us now pass into the perron. To the right and
the left are two elegant vases which cost fifrv thousand
francs. The outlook is beautiful, especially in summer,
as one has opposite him the fountain, and at a dis-
tance beyond the park, and farther on a view of the
open country.

Let us re-enter the apartments.

TTe are in the parlor called the Parlor of Hangings,
which contains a few panels by Desportes. On the
walls hang tapestries, woven in silk, of a freshness
without equal. It was in this room, full of smiling
figures and teasing shepherdesses, it was amidst these
frivolous scenes that the famous interview took place
between Bismarck and Jules Favre, in the war of 1870.

The Venetian room contains nothing particularly
attractive. " At the hunting season,*' said Eothschild,
" we have to put some princes in it/3

The decorations of the smoking-room are by Eugene
Lamy, who has reproduced there with remarkable ex-
actness several episodes of the Carnival of Venice.

The hall alone, however, well repays a visit to
this house. In the evening this hall, with its eleven
hundred jets of gas, which shed their rich light upon
the ceiling, the brilliant toilets, diamonds and
flowers, presents a veritable fairy-like scene. It is the

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most enchanting part of the whole house. Every-
thing there speaks of triumphs. Around the immense
gallery that crowns the hall are superb tapestries
representing nothing but triumphs : the triumph of
Alexander, the triumph of Neptune, the triumph
of Peace, etc.. etc. One sees there — what does not
one see in this prodigious bazar ! Behold ! first
to the left the picture of Baron James Rothschild,
by Flanderin, and of the Baroness, by Ingres. On the
walls there is a picture of a mam by Rembrandt, also
pictures of the Countess Delia Rocea, and of Don
Luis de Haro, by Velasquez, and of Diana, the
huntress nymph, by Rubens ; David and Goliath, by
Guide ; of Princess Henrietta of England, by Rey-
nolds ; Diogenes in Search of an Honest Man, by Van
Mol, and The Message, by Bordone.

Everywhere there can be seen Italian cabinets filled
with little masterpieces, ivories, emeralds, boxes, a
historic mirror of Madame de Pompadour, etc.

The monumental mantelpiece is decorated with
Italian medallions, and is mounted with a bust of
Minerva. Upon the piece of brown marble is the fol-
lowing inscription in praise of the happiness that
comes from wealth. It is in letters of gold, but each
word is strangely spaced with a point.

" Sweet, is. life, sweet, it. is. to. live.
Be. ever. with. me. in. summer, and. winter.
Be. ever. with. me. in. spring, and. in. autumn.
Sweet, is. life. when, tried, friends, make. it. so.
Their, place, is. here, always. Be, ever. with. me.
The. young, and. the. old."

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An alburn bound in morocco leather, that is left
ostentatiously upon the table, awakens many a
thought* On the first page we read, "Souvenir of
the charming day of the 16th of December, 186^.
Napoleon;" a little below, "Souvenir of friendship
for the charming hospitality of Baron and Baroness
James de Eothschild, Xovember 20, 1866. Ma-
thilda."

Charms, charmed, charmers, everything is charm-
ing, but abruptly on the following page appears a
name written in heavy, bold characters. " Wilhelm,
September 21, 1870." The names of Bismarck and
Moltke are signed below those of the Emperor.

Following the names of the conquerors we find the
signatures of the most illustrious representatives of the
nobility of France. The Germans whose names figure
in this registry signed there by the right of force.
They occupied the house by the right of war, and
demanded to be served, not as persons invited,
but as conquerors. They toasted not the charms of
the Baroness, but their brave Emperor, after God
their only master. But France's nobles went there
as persons subsisting on alms. They went there
with downcast heads, happy in being admitted to the
presence of these Jews.

The impression this house leaves upon one is more
that of fatigue than of admiration. It is an incredible
warehouse of bric-a-brac. All these objects collected
from all the corners of the earth seem to growl at one
another, for these spoils of the universe do not har-
monize. One might easily fancy that these products

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of so many civilizations are looking in defiance at one
another. In the words of Goncourt, "There are
collections of art that show neither passion, love nor
intelligence ; nothing excepting the brutal victory
of money/'

The love of bric-a-brac, of all odds and ends, or
rather the Jews' passion for possession, is often carried
to childishness. A small stone pot, not worth more
than six francs, serves for a vis-a-vis to an exquisite
little figure of artistic design.

The park, vast as it is, presents nothing particu-
larly inviting. There are not, in all this immense
park, more than half a dozen statues, and these are
so commonplace that they are hardly fit to be placed
in a beer garden.

The finest spot in all this immense park is the
place allotted to the green-houses and the aviaries.

The green-houses are a delight, filled with plants
which are in bloom all the season, collected from every
part of the world.

In the immense aviaries hundreds of birds of rare
plumage and of great variety of color seem to reflect
the skies of their respective countries.

There are partridges from China, red pheasants and
pheasants of all known species ; toucans, which, with
their ugly black bills, attack the pheasants as the
Jews attack the Gentiles ; flamingos of Egypt,
perched upon basins filled with fish ; blue magpies of
China ; doves caught in the Philippine Islands ; in a
word, the birds of Europe, the birds of Africa, the
birds of Asia, the birds of America, the birds of Aus-

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tralia — all are to be found there. They flap their wings
in picturesque confusion. In concert they cry, now
shrieking, now plaintive. The whole seems like a vis-
ion of some corner of a terrestrial paradise. These birds
are the life of this sombre domain, a domain upon which
neither heroism nor genius have put their resplendent
seal. Contrast this Jew7?s palace with the simple house
of Wellington, which from top to bottom was adorned
only with the flags and trophies captured at Waterloo.

The greatest joy of the Rothschilds is to read a news-
paper that contains articles published about them,
when either a feast or a marriage enlivens their do-
main. They pass the newspaper from hand to hand,
and, strange though it may seem, every member reads
the article aloud. Every member feels a special pride
as he peruses these articles written with an incon-
ceivable exaggeration of adjectives.

The salaried minions of the Rothschilds tear their
hair and roll upon the ground in despair, if one can
believe the accounts published, on the loss of a mem-
ber of the Rothschild family.

As a well-known author has said, the very frontiers
of hyperbole recede before their expressions of sor-
row. The following newspapers are in the pay of the
Rothschilds : Journal de Paris, La France, Le Con-
stitutionnel, La Liberie, Le Petit Journal, La Patrie,
Le Journal cles Debats, L? Opinion Nationale, Le
Temps, Le Figaro, L'Epoque, L Evenement, Le Mon~
iteur die Soir, La Correspondance Generale des Da-
partments, Le Sporty Le Memorial Diplomatique, La
Semaine Financiered

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Astonishing letters are sent to them : "You will
pardon me if I disturb you in the midst of your sor-
rows. . . . My sole excuse please attribute to the
interest I take." Behold how the Prince cle Join-
ville, in whose veins runs the blood of Louis XIV.,
wrote to this manipulator of money, this man of
fraudulent antecedents.

Ever since 1868 the spirit of servility has been con-
stantly on the increase. The descriptions published
apropos of a Rothschild marriage are bewildering. The
toilet of the bride is described in its minutest details of
head-gear, body-gear and foot-gear, all of which gears
are said to have been furnished by . . - . so and so
. . . so and so, Purveyors to the Baron. Natu-
rally no names are omitted. We find there Prince
Murat, the Duke de Broglie, the Duke de Montmo-
rency, in a word, all the nobility of France present to
worship this golden calf, and to proclaim to the world
that wealth. is the supreme royalty.

The entire police force is on duty to secure the
streets for the exclusive use of the marriage guests.

To go into ecstasy over these Jews, who have noth-
ing to recommend them but the wealth that has been
acquired by questionable means, is a folly almost be-
yond comprehension.

People often go into raptures over what is termed
the inexhaustible charity of the Rothschilds. " Oh,
the noble Baroness, the mother of the poor ! " exclaims
the Jew Wolff.

Now the charity of the Rothschilds is a myth. In
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generous as the laboring man who gives a cent a week
to the poor. The fact is. the Eothschilds are nig-
gardly. They have founded hospitals, for whom ?
Their co-religionists. They establish in business those
of their race who promise to succeed. In a word,
everything they give is given to the Jews, because by
strengthening their people they strengthen themselves.
They have at their command that admirable secret
police which has not its equal in the world. They
discharge an obligation — they do not bestow a charity.
From their action they derive abundant returns.

What is true of the Eothschilds is true of all Jews,
•who make a display of charity solely to get the applause
of the rabble. It is astonishing how successful the Jews
are in finding means by which they make a reputation
for philanthropy, while really they make the Gentiles
alleviate the misery of others.

The catastrophes that have occurred in the course
of the last few years have, with very few exceptions,
mowed down the ranks of the Jews. Szegedin was
nearly all occupied by Jews. At the burning of the
theatre in Vienna, they furnished most of the victims.
The Island of Chios, where more than 11,000 persons
perished from earthquake, was inhabited chiefly by
Jews, and the victims of the fires in the theatres of
London and Paris were mostly Jews.

The fairs given -in the name of charity are one
of the features of modern life. They have greatly
multiplied of late years, and it belongs to the histo-
rian, or rather to the moralist, to describe their results.
But they offer a double advantage to the Jew. They

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attest the power of Israel, which puts a city in a fer-
ment as soon as a Jew needs assistance, and permits
the obscure Jew to mix with society.

One of the latest and most noted of these charities
that demands our notice was the one organized by the
Jews for the suryiyors of the earthquake in Chios.
The J ews announced that the fair was to assist the
suryiyors without distinction of race. Accordingly a
Kirmess was organized opposite the Tuileries, which
Kirmess the Jews called "a market of pleasure."
This market of pleasure was closed on Saturdays, and
when the Gentiles asked the reason, the Jews re-
sponded : " There is a time for everything. To-day
it is Saturday. We shall open to-morrow. Sunday
is the better day for us."

Sunday the place presented an animated spectacle.
Circuses, shows, lotteries, flower-stands, everything
presented the well-known life of Paris. Joyful excla-
mations were heard on all sides. But how the funds
were distributed nobody has been able to ascer-
tain.

We must not forget to mention that no charity was
organized to assist the families of the 30,000 Gentiles
murdered in Tonquin.

One invariably sees in these charity fairs what we
may term the old brigade of society, composed always
of the same persons, and always described with the
same adjectives in the newspapers. Who does not
recall, when looking at these dowagers, the old
women spoken of in Aristophanes, the sweethearts of
death?

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The old Greek writer comes to our mind as we
stand before these superannuated beauties, who are so
obstinate in displaying faces that seem already to haye
the immobility of mortuary things. This old battal-
ion is really one of the sights peculiar to our epoch.
Formerly, when, to use the expression of the poet,
"the course of life was half over," people resigned
themselves, perhaps not without a deeply drawn sigh,
to pass into what is called a retreat. They quitted
with dignity the scenes of life where, during the
happy hours of youth, they had acted a part at times
brilliant. To-day, however, the old brigade refuses to
disappear, although these figures of society produce
the effect of skeletons of the middle ages, clothed
in silk, covered with jewels, replete with orna-
ments, but with wrinkled faces, dry lips and toothless
mouths.

When we asked how the money arising from the Chios
Kirmess was distributed, we were referred by the Jews
to their committee, who minced matters, and never
gave us a satisfactory answer. Apropos of commit-
tees composed of Jews, Ave recall " The Committee
Dupont, which was composed of Dupont, was pre-
sided over by Dupont, and re-elected Dupont."

Speaking of charity fairs, we are reminded of a
singular " Ball of Animals," organized in the month
of May, 1885, in Paris, by the Princess de Sagan. At
this nameless ball all the high life, all the true no-
bility of Europe, was present.

The Jew newspaper Le Gaalois gave a full descrip-
tion of this singular ball. " Cocks strutted through

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 209

the rooms. We recognized under these crests the
Viscounts Eoger de Chabrol, de Dampierre, and de
Las Cases. . . . Ducks, herons and magpies
also were there in great numbers. The Viscount
d'Andlau appeared in the disguise of a common brown
owl. The Duke de Gramont appeared as a sparrow.
Two brothers, the Counts Francois de Gontaut, en-
tered representing a giraffe. M. de Germiny achieved
the success of the evening. He dressed himself as a
monkey, and amused those present with his grimaces.
Madame de La Eochefoucauld-Bisaccia was a pelican.
Others were disguised as rats ; the Count de Toque-
ville as a drake, the Count of Antioche as a lion, while
Count E. de La Eochefoucauld appeared as an otter.
Madame Thouvenel represented a bat, Countess de
Blacas a young hen, Prince Franyois de Broglie wore
the head of a turkey. Count de Gontaut-Biron ap-
peared as a white poodle dog, the Marquis de La
Ferronnays as a gull, and Countess Florian was dressed
in gold and green, with wings that represented a dragon

fly."

The Jewish district naturally was present to laugh
at the degradation of this miserable aristocracy.

"Madame Lambert-Eothschild appeared as a pan-
ther. She wore a skirt of blue tulle, trimmed with
gold and fine pearls, while the corsage and the train
were of embroidered velvet in imitation of the skin of a
panther. Her mantle was in the style of the time of
Louis XIII. She had on the head of a panther,
pinned in the middle with a crescent of diamonds.

"Suddenly a drum sounded, which made everybody
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expect a surprise. The crowd pushed forward, while
some craned their necks or got rip on chairs to have a
better view.

•'A voice was heard to say : e Bring some ladders.'
Another one cried : - My kingdom for a ladder.5

" The dance was about to begin.

^' An immense hive was seen, which of course im-
plied the presence of bees. Presently a swarm ap-
peared. But what kind of bees ? Bees in corsages of
chestnut satin with blue stripes ; bees in silk with
skirts of blue worked with gold ; bees in chestnut
aprons spangled with gold ; bees winged with gauze
of gold ; bees wearing helmets of gold. In these fairy
forms could be recognized Countess Francois de Gon-
taut, Duchess Gramont, Princess de Leon and a hun-
dred others, all of whom came and went, talking,
humming and laughing at the same time. They were
too charming to be permitted to fly away, and in fact
the drones were there ready to bar the way. The
drones appeared in the persons of the Marquis Mou-
tiers, Prince de Lucinge, Count de Haro, and others.
They made the round of the hive, upon which they
cast the looks of a connoisseur before passing judg-
ment upon these radiant master- pieces.

*' The bees, which the presence of the drones caused
to leave the hive, approached the gallant drones, and,
after a pursuit, both bees and drones mingled with
one another and the dance began."

The newspaper Le Pelerin printed as a legend un-
der a cartoon reproducing a scene of the ball the fol-
lowing :

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" The Duchess de Bauseant presents the Baron des
Argousses to the Marquise de Cassenoisette.

" The Baron : — It is singular, Madame la Marquise,
but it seems to me that I already have had the honor
to meet you.

" ' Quite right, Baron. It was at the ball of the
Princess de Sagan. I was dressed as a bug/
" ' Indeed ! You were that irresistible bug V
" 6 And you did not recognize me ??
" c How stupid of me ! "

" 6 You were dressed as a hawk, were you not ? ?
"a was.'

" ' And your sister ? 5
fUAs a sewer rat/
" ' How charming ! ' 99

This bug, bat and rat ball took place solely in or-
der that the names of those present might appear
in the society paper, Le Gaulois, edited by the Jew
Arthur Meyer.

Meyer is a type of the Jew journalist of the present
day. To describe him would be to describe in general
the journalists of the Jewish race.

Meyer is a leader in Parisian society, an arbitrator
of elegance, an organizer of society affairs. Never
before have the Jews produced a type so successful as
this Meyer. The son of a dealer in braids, Meyer came
to Paris about twenty years ago, as secretary to a cer-
tain demi-mondaine. Meanwhile he occupied his
spare time in the capacity of a reporter. He button-
holed everybody, in order to obtain a bit of startling-
news, and more than once he was heard at society

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festivals to ask those present, "Pray, what is the
name of this lady ? What is the name of this gentle-
man ? Can you tell me something of their antece-
dents ?" and so on. He wrote the names given to him
with feverish anxiety on his cuffs. He' signed the
pseudonym of Jean de Paris.

In 1869 a book appeared entitled Paris that Plays
and Paris that Cheats. The following faithful ac-
count of Arthur Meyer, alias Jean de Paris, was given
under the name of Duke Jean :

" Clothes to sell ! Old clothes, old braids, old
hats ! "

It was, and still is, the device of the Duke Jean
family. At the age of fifteen, tired of his apprentice-
ship to traffic, Arthur Meyer, afterward known as
Duke Jean, the present proprietor of the Gaidois,
moved heaven and earth to go to Paris, — the only
field in France for a nature as industrious as that
of Duke Jean. In Paris the Duke did a little of
everything. He tried commerce, which, however,
did not prove successful, and he then engaged in the
business of counterfeiting trade-marks. Later on
Duke Jean saw how profitable it would be to flatter
the vanity of some and to extol the coquetry of others.
The first year, however, was a hard one for him. He
went to Trouville-sur-Mer (the Newport of France),
where, during his short sojourn, it was discovered
that he had more than four aces at his command.

He was expelled from the Casino. He, however,
succeeded in attaching himself to a certain person well
known through his productions depicting a certain

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 213

grade of Parisian society. Owing to this friendship,
Duke Jean again entered society — but false society,
frequented by young bloods and a certain class of re-
porters. In this society he soon achieved a promi-
nence, which, however, did not satisfy his ambition,
for he never ceased to cast longing eyes toward the
better circles.

This was Meyer's first start. He quickly made
his way, owing to the influence of the Jews, which
reached its zenith soon after the Franco-Prussian
War. To-day Duke Jean, after numberless acts
of blackguardism and blackmail, is the owner of a
newspaper, of a house and of a carriage. He does
not excite either scorn or envy, but he is looked
upon with amazement.

With his sallow complexion, bald head, and glossy
beard, he gives the impression of a Semitic mummy
walking about the streets by the aid of a secret
spring.

This fantastical being, this blackleg, is a leader in
fashionable society. It is he who put into circulation
the words " pshutt and v'lcm," which French society
repeats with an idiotic grimace. This fellow has
been mixed, in everything that is low and disgraceful
in the annals of the world. Lately he figured promi-
nently in the Meissonier versus Madame Mackay
affair. He persuaded Madame Mackay to pay the
amount claimed by the artist, which amount Meyer
took to Meissonier and paid over to him. Madame
Mackay was justified in her dissatisfaction with her
picture, and Meissonier disgraced himself with his

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greediness, by exacting 70,000 francs for a painting
to which he devoted only a very few sittings.

6i Paris is getting to be a lair of thieves," cry the
■tourists. This is not true. Paris still has its full
share of honest people. If, instead of allowing her-
self to be surrounded by the thieves who wait for the
arrival of tourists at the railroad stations ; if, instead
of permitting herself to be surrounded by Jews, Mad-
ame Mackay, who is* certainly a most estimable
woman, had selected her associates more wisely, she
would have learned that often as fictitious a price is
put upon works of art as upon railroad shares. She
would have found in Paris many artists that paint
as good a portrait as Meissonier. She would have
found an artist who would have treated her honorably,
and thus she would have escaped the scurrilous
attacks made by the public press.

This Meyer is a type of the wriggling, insinuating,
low flatterer, the very type of the Jew who puts the
patricians to sleep with his flattery. He organizes
society fairs with the assistance of titled ladies. At a
recent feast it was announced that he would open the
ball with Countess Aimery de La Rochefoucauld.
When the time came, the poor Countess was so
ashamed to be seen dancing with this low Jew that
she took only a turn round the room, followed by
this little Jew, who looked like a page holding the
train of an Empress.

Clearly to understand what takes place in the sanc-
tums of Jew papers, we refer our readers to Le Dniicle,
a novel written by the Countess de Martel, who says

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 215

concerning the Gaulois : " They have special editors
for pander and blackmail. They employ an old
variety actress, who edits the fashion column, and who
claims to teach the latest society manners."

Nothing is more upright, more conscientious, more
disinterested than the journalism of Christian news-
papers. The true journalist wields a powerful arm
with which he wounds the yanity of people, when this
vanity has assumed almost morbid proportions ; or
again he lavishes praise on those to whom praise is due,
without a thought ever crossing his mind of deriving
any benefit whatever from the praises he bestows.

With the Jew, however, the newspaper is only an
instrument of blackmail. It is the Jew who says to
our judges, " If you do this you will command the
services of an experienced journalist."

In the annals of blackmail the Jew journalist fig-
ures to an astonishing degree. To cite a few examples:

Fiorentino, the only critic of a French paper ever
convicted of blackmail, was a Jew. At the time of
the debut of a poor actress, who had begged of him
to wait a little for the money he demanded of her for

an article written by him, he wrote : " Miss

is a promising actress, but whether she will make
good her promises remains to be seen." David, a
well-known financial editor, was also convicted of
blackmail, and he too was a Jew. Mr. Albert Chris-
topher, director of the Credit Fonder, declared be-
fore the Chamber the manner in which the Jew,
Eugene Mayer, obtained the money that enabled him
to establish his paper La Lanterne.

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Mayer commenced by writing some articles in La
Reforme Financiere detrimental to the Credit Foncier,
but his articles were ignored.

" Accordingly," said Mr. Albert Christopher, " all
these articles were collected into one volume, which
quite naturally disturbed the directors of the above
financial institution. Mayer had the book exposed in
the windows of the book-stores throughout Paris.
Acting upon the advice of the directors, Mr. Albert
Christopher bought the entire edition from Mayer for
30,000 francs, and both the plates and the books were
destroyed, with the exception of one copy, which the
president of the institution kept. Now, gentlemen/'
said Mr. Christopher to the Chamber, "who were the
authors of this publication ? Who were the makers
of this libellous book ? Who were those who put it on
sale ? In fine, who were those who made the shame-
ful traffic that I stand here to denounce ? They are
those who took the money, those who have used the
money to vivify and to enable the newspaper La La?i-
terne to succeed. These are the facts in this case,
which I leave to your appreciation, without adding
thereto any commentary. These are the facts which,
without exaggeration, I stigmatize as an act of finan-
cial blackmail."

On the 14th of July, 1883, the Jewish paper La
Lanterne published a scurrilous article against the
Colonel of the 22d Eegiment of Artillery. On the
day following the offices of the paper were full of
officers. What were those gentlemen there for ? To
demand reparation from Mayer ? 'No ; they went

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 217

there, the paper announced in italics, "to offer testi-
mony favorable to their colonel."

"Is it not humiliating," says Druniont, "for psy-
chologic history to see these heroes, these soldiers of
great battles, these Frenchmen occupied in pleading
the cause of their colonel before a rascally Jew of Co-
logne, half blackmailer and half spy ? " It is impossi-
ble to make either an Englishman, an American, or a
German understand such a proceeding.

The German officers, those discij^les of Hegel, in
uniform, who wish to explain everything by philosoph-
ical theories, embarrass you with their everlasting
questions.

"Now," they say, "your officers are very brave.
We saw them under fire : they are almost unequalled
in attack. How is it that they permit themselves to be
so treated ? "

The absence of moral courage is the only explana-
tion that can be offered.

To demonstrate this absence of moral courage, let
the reader read the account of the thirty-seven gen-
darmes who were hostages of the Commune. These
men in the very flower of their age, these men of in-
contestable courage, which they proved by their death,
allowed themselves to be conducted to the slaughter
by an escort of thirty-five German Jews, who would
have run away the moment these thirty-seven heroes
had shown any fight.

During their march to the place of execution, the
masses were favorable to them and encouraged them
to escape. At the top of La Eoquette Street a woman

218 THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS,

cried out : " For God's sake rim away." " But they
marched to the end," says Maxime du Camp, "quietly
keeping step as if they were going to military ma-
noeuvres."

The events that have occurred during the last ten
years prove that the atmosphere of France has be-
come so thoroughly impregnated with Jewish foetid-
ness that there is no more moral courage or strength
of character in a French colonel than there is in a sim-
ple municipal guard. Eugene Mayer, however, pos-
sesses in the highest degree moral courage and strength
of character.

One of the uncles of this Mayer, owing to the in-
fluence of the Jew Wolff, who is connected with the
Figaro, was given the position of military contractor
during the Crimean and Mexican wars, in which po-
sition he made an enormous fortune, which he lost in
speculation. Later on he engaged in a fraudulent
speculation in the United States, but, fearing arrest,
he fled to Brussels.

Another of his uncles was, in 1860, Director of the
Cologne Loan Bank — a sort of pawn-shop on a large
scale. Having committed numerous embezzlements,
he sought refuge first in France, and then in England.
He was, in his absence, condemned to prison at hard
labor for life. While in London he married a noto-
rious procuress established in Piccadilly, who has
since moved to the more productive soil of Paris. '

It was at the house of a cousin of this Mayer,

Madame P— , that a marshal of the Second Empire

suddenly died.

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 219

As for the father of Mayer, he was incarcerated for
a few days in prison, but was shortly afterwards par-
doned, thanks to the influence of the marshal. Be-
ing implicated, however, a few years ago, in another
affair, and finding himself face to face with ruin, he
hanged himself in hisshop.

The editor of La Lanterne has also recently figured
in the tragic affair of Eappaport.

This Eappaport, alias Bappoport, was a true type of
the modern Jew — a type such as we meet with by
the thousand in all. large cities. He lived in a sump-
tuous apartment in Eichelieu Street, frequented the
fashionable restaurants, and was always engaged in
some speculation. He was a native of Wilna.

Just how the drama in which he disappeared, on the
12th of December, 1882, was enacted, has to this day
remained problematical. Let us cite first of all the
account given by La Lanterne, a paper well acquainted
with the facts, but very anxious to conceal them.

" The material facts of the case are well known.
On the morning of the 12th of December a window
suddenly flew open, and a young girl appeared utter-
ing piercing cries. A moment later she disappeared,
drawn violently back, and the window was shut down.
Then a shot was fired. . . . The police arrived,
broke open the door and entered the apartment.

" This apartment was occupied by George Eappa-
port, a diamond broker. He had stabbed his daugh-
ter and blown out his brains,

" These are the facts concerning this bloody drama.

No newspaper has, as yet, fully ascertained the

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THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

cause of the crime. Some people think they see in
this murder a father washing out in blood the dis-
honor of his daughter. Nothing can be further from
the truth, which we give as follows :

" George Eappaport, a native of Poland, and a dia-
mond broker in Paris, married, in 1864, Miss L.
Davis. Two children were born to them, a daughter
— the victim of yesterday — and a boy fifteen years old
to-day.

"Disagreements, however, or what Americans call
' incompatibility of temper/ soon manifested them-
selves between husband and wife. Eich in vices, but
poor in morals, Eappaport sought to find in his wife a
fortune, and he attempted to make traffic of her body,
sell her to his rich friends, whereat the woman was
forced to seek refuge under the roof of her fam-
ily. Later on she obtained a divorce, granted to her
in 1876.

" In the mean time the young girl grew to be a fasci-
nating and beautiful woman. The enterprising father,
as he had wished to traffic in the beauty of his wife,
made up his mind to speculate in the same manner in
the beauty of his daughter. He sought to make her
an actress, and made her enter the Paris Conservatory
as soon as she had left her boarding-school in 1880.
Miss Eappaport was then sixteen years old.

"The mother protested, and brought a suit against
her husband to compel him to return her daughter to
her boarding-school, but, unfortunately, in her suit
she stigmatized the Conservatory as a disreputable re-
sort. The necessity of shielding the Conservatory

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 221

from an imputation so hazardously ventured was in-
cumbent upon the judge. The court accordingly de-
clared that the Conservatory was a temple of morality,
and consequently it was perfectly legitimate for M.
Eappaport to place his daughter there.

" Owing to this decision he was enabled to keep the
child with him, and shortly afterwards he began to
show her everywhere ; in the theatre, in the park, in
questionable resorts of amusement, always having her
dressed in the most sensational toilets.

" The despairing mother could not interfere. The
decree of the court stood as an impassable mountain
between her and her daughter.

" The child, however, for she was still a child, re-
fused to be sold, and energetically defended herself.

" Some time ago Eappaport, still confident that he
could overcome her resistance, installed himself in
a sumptuous manner in new quarters, in order the
better to introduce her to the world. He rented in the
Avenue d'Antin, No. 29, an apartment at a yearly rent
of 8,000 francs, which he richly furnished. His inten-
tion was to occupy it with his daughter on the 15th
inst.

" The young girl, however, more resolutely than .
ever before, refused to accede to her father's urgent
request to sell her body, a refusal which the inhuman
father called ingratitude.

"Last Sunday Eappaport, seeing the impossibility
of realizing his shameful dreams, resolved to kill her
who refused to enrich him. He addressed to his son
the following letter :

222 TJ3U ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

" * Sunday, December 10, 1882. '

" * My Beloyed Son :

11 ' Your .ungrateful sister has driYen me to despair. She in-
sulted me in the highest degree. On ail sides I am unhappy.
Your sister is cursed by me. Death is preferable. I am sorry
to be unable to bid you farewell. I wish you all possible happi-
ness.

" 1 1 embrace you for the last time,

" 'Your Father who loves you.'"

" This letter the poor boy has not yet received. He
knows nothing of this tragedy, for he is on the sick list
at his boarding-school, dangerously ill, owing to the
terrible emotion he experienced when recently he
spent a few clays at his father's house. He was a wit-
ness of the frightful scenes that have taken place be-
tween his father and his sister, scenes that were only
a repetition of a hundred others of the same kind.
The monster found his projects so natural that he did
not conceal them even from his son."

" A few newspapers stated that Mademoiselle Eap-
poport had a lover, and that this lover, a rich Span-
iard, had just left her house when she was stabbed.

" This is calumny, a fact also attested by the med-
ical examination proving that the father stabbed his
. daughter wrhile she was sleeping. For some days the
young girl had been haunted by sinister apprehensions,
and was in the habit of locking her room carefully,
but her father, unknown to her, had made a duplicate
key."

All other newspapers, however, present the drama
in a different aspect.

" Bappoport/' said the News of Paris, under date

DEG-EXERA TIOX OF TEE JEWS.

223

of December 14th. "was a Jew, a native of Russian
Poland. In 1862, a mutual friend introduced him
to a charming young girl, a Jewess. The young girl
was of an extremely artistic and delicate nature, alto-
gether unsuited to the savage nature of Bappoport.
He, however, married her, and two children were
born to them. But one day his wife, wearied of her
prosaic existence, abandoned him for a young man,
whom she left for another. To-day she is the inti-
mate friend of one of our esteemed contemporaries.75

Drumont says: ^'The generally accepted opinion
in the neighborhood where the tragedy was committed
is that Bappoport was assassinated by a person of the
Semitic race, who was seen to run away precipitately
a few moments after the cry, and that the young gin
was stabbed while trying to defend her father. If, as
La Lanterne claims, she was struck during her sleep,
it is not possible to understand how she could have
uttered piercing cries at the window ; cries, as La
Lanterne affirms, that aroused the people. Again,
according to the testimony of the neighbors, Made-
moiselle Bappoport was dressed when she appeared at
the window, a fact that shows that the young girl was
not murdered in her bed.

" According to general belief, the active interfer-
ence of a Jewish magistrate put an end to an inquest
that was about to take place. Certain it is that the
autopsy that was demanded by many people never
took place. A rabbi called, took away the body of
Bappoport, quickly carried it to the Jewish cemetery,

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THE ORIGINAL JIB. JACOBS.

where it was buried, without any of his friends or ac-
quaintances being informed of the funeral.

Imagine a Gentile dragging after him all these sin-
ister souvenirs, mixed in all these dramas, splashed
with all this blood ; how his life would be darkened !
He would be a prey to an insurmountable melan-
choly, and would do everything in his power to have
people talk as little as possible about him. The Jew,
however, amid these tragic events, is like a fish in deep
water. He is always on the move, always happy. He
finds his natural element in an atmosphere of contin-
ual trouble. He attacks, by preference, the institu-
tions calculated to inspire him with a salutary fear.
He calls the officers of the law "clowns of the church,
and buffoons of the vestry. " *

How can an author describe this character, this
nature so peculiar to a Jew? A Jew is naturally a
coward; that is to sav. he will never meet an antago-
nist face to face. Still this little Jew of Cologne, who
has everything against him, who carries a disgraced
name, who has no literary talent whatever, is looked
upon as a somebody in Paris. Through his paper,
La Larder ne. he is able to manipulate affairs, and,
to a certain extent, succeeds in. moulding public
opinion.

How can a people thrive that is a prey to men like
Mayer, who are always busy intriguing or scheming,
or engaged in some scandal or swindle ? Let the Jews
have their way for twenty years, and not only Paris

* Lanteme of May, 1883.

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and France, but all Europe would be ruined ; not
even America would escape.

If we could be left with those only already among
us ! Alas ! there are millions of them in the World
who come down upon us, one after the other, more
famished, more grasping, more zealous in their an-
archical doctrines than their predecessors. God speed
the anti-anarchical society, the plan of which was re-
cently published in the New York Evening Post.

Mayer, however, is more endurable than his con-
temporary, Wolff, of Le Figaro, the most barefaced
and shameless blackmailer the Semitic or any other
race has thus far produced. He spoke the truth
when he called himself " The epoch's great phe-
nomenon. " The modern Jew is incarnated in his
entirety in this mongrel and singular being.

One day the Queen of Eoumania asked the Jew
Blowitz, who went to that country to introduce the
lightning express, to what country he belonged.
"Your Majesty," responded the Jew^ "I do not
myself know. I was born in Bohemia, and I live in
France, where I write in the English language." But
as a type of the cosmopolitan Jew, TTolff is still more
complete. He has neither country, religion nor sex.
This neutral being, in fact, is a unique product that
does not enter into any existing classification.

Bastien-Lepage, the painter, has drawn this anthro-
pomorphous figure in his true colors. This bizarre
creature is a common figure in the Boulevards of
Paris, a being which recalls those fat women now
and then to be seen wearing upon their deformed
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heads bonnets with an abundance of flowers, with
bosoms swinging in dirty camisoles, and with a de-
meanor of a truly comical solemnity. Wolff has the
peculiar leer of these strange matrons. We must try
to do with the pen what Bastien-Lepage has done
with the brush. We have, fortunately, as a guide, a
characteristic production by a young literary Jew,
entitled Albert Wolff, a History of a Parisian Chron-
icler, ly Gustave Tondouze.

Like many other Jew journalists, Wolff was born
in Cologne, and it was not till 1857 that this German
journalist came to France to eat her bread while insti-
gating the German invasion. Kugelmanh made him
enter Le Figaro office, where he shone brilliantly.
What is called by j)eople " Parisian wit " is a frothy
creation of the Jews, who speak it best, as it is natu-
ral those should do who fabricate the slang.

At the time when Wolff came to Paris he was not
a high-priced man. In return for a loan of five louis
he would lavish upon any one a thousand compli-
ments. But if ever he wTas reminded of the loan, he
covered the lender with his filthy invectives.

Once a poor man, who lacked philosophy in the face
of these insults, carried his case to court. Gambetta,
who pleaded in behalf of his co-religionists, called the
all-powerful gods to witness that no man ever under-
stood as well as Wolff the dignity of the press. The
judges, however, who during those early days had still
certain prejudices, were not of the same opinion, and
on Friday, Dec. 29, 1865, rendered the following de-
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227

Wolff himself characterized as "a life of honor and
propriety."

"Seeing that an article appeared on the 22d of
November last, . . . containing the most insulting
expressions and defamatory allusions against the plain-
tiff and that the said plaintiff was spoken of in the said
article as a blackguard, a miserable fellow, a man en-
gaged in suspicious affairs, a shark and a usurer of the
lowest type, and was furthermore alluded to as con-
stantly occupied in the study of the Penal Code, so as
to learn exactly what he could do without falling into
the hands of the police, and as having no friends ex-
cepting two or three cronies, who, while they consent
sometimes to associate with him, immediately upon
leaving him say to themselves : 6 Can one fall so low as
we have just fallen, in being seen in the society of this
low fellow ? ' And furthermore the said plaintiff having
been pointed out as engaged in the business of redeem-
ing the obligations of unfortunate writers, thus ena-
bling him to acquire for a contemptible sum the plays
and other literary productions of these unfortunate
writers, and yet still daring to be seen occasionally
in the society of the above writers whom he robs ;
seeing finally, that the facts in this case disclose
that the said Wolff has no reason whatsoever to offer
as an excuse for his culpability and guilt, inasmuch
as only a few wreeks before the publication of the above
scandalous article he was in friendly relations with
the plaintiff, whom he addressed in his letters as
'Dear Sir/ and which letters ended with 'a thou-
sand regards," and in which letters he begged for a

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further delay for the payment of a debt of one hun-
dred francs, and furthermore the said Wolff, haying
pledged his word of honor that the said debt would
be paid before the 22d of October, it is the decision
of the Court that the said Wolff, by writing and causing
to be published the article herein analyzed has yielded
to a sentiment of personal revenge, mainly owing
to the action brought by the plaintiff on the 25th of
October. The court condemns Wolff to six days' im-
prisonment, and to a fine of three hundred francs."

Thanks to Le Figaro, Wolff exercises oyer the
art world the influence that Mayer exercises over the
social and political. " We saw/' says Drumont, " ar-
tists of talent tremble in their boots, when that hid-
eous Jew passed before their pictures, a few days be-
fore the opening of the Salon."

Were a Gentile to do one-quarter only of what this
arch blackmailer has done,, the Gentiles would not find
sufficient anathemas to hurl at his head. The Jews,
on the contrary, sustain and defend their co-religion-
ist. Whatever a man would ordinarily avoid even
to hint at is sufficient to prompt Wolff to go into full
details.

The coffin of the unfortunate actress, Gabrielle,
was not yet closed when Wolff related in its full de-
tails the private life of the actress, and published what
nobody had ever asked of him, revealing that this
woman, now dead, was formerly the mistress of a
Jew, a frequenter of the green-room, named Ernest
Blum. Blum profited by the opportunity to adver-
tise himself at the expense of his dead companion.

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He published scurrilous allusions in the Jewish paper,
Le Rappel.

But it is Sarah Bernhardt who inspires Wolff. The
chronicler of Le Figaro blesses this "child," blesses
her husband, blesses her children, and compares
Sarah to an angel who has spread her wings over art,
and slighting nothing in his description of the interior
of her home.

The fact that people allow these nauseating articles
to occupy the front page of Le Figaro day after day,
without offering the slightest protest, is evidence of
the degeneration of moral courage among the masses.
Thanks to the Jews, both the theatre and society
threaten to fall into the lowest degradation. Society
has become an immense theatre, where each one tries,
indeed, to attract to himself the attention of others.

The theatre itself is fast assuming an anomalous
importance, which is explained by the invasion of the
Jews. The profession of actor is well calculated to
tempt the Jews. It promises great returns, satisfies a
certain vanity, and does not require in the average actor
any extraordinary talent. All the theatres in Paris are
in the hands of Jews. Speculators in vaudeville and
concerts, like Strakosch, are also Jews. The greater
part of the artists are also of the family of Jacob.
Stolz, Patti, Sass, Fides, Devries, Eosine, Bloch,
Heilbronn, Bernhardt, Mile. Isaac, Judic, Madame
Israel Reichemberg, Mile. Milly Meyer, are all Jews.
"Worms is the son of a Jew butcher whose shop is sit-
uated in Vieille-du-Temple Street.

Managers of low variety shows, managers who"

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speculate in the business ; managers who, without
capital, engage companies and trust to luck, are all
Jews. If you. speak with an American manager, he
will tell you that ever since the Jews entered^the busi-
ness the theatrical profession has been on the decline.

As soon as it is a question of praising a daughter of
Zion, the terms heretofore employed by the entire
Christian world in honor of those Gentiles that have
ennobled the stage are not sufficiently strong to please
the Jews. We have already alluded to the Jewish
habit of aggrandizing everything that they touch upon,
or, rather, to aggrandize everything that touches them.
They see everything through a magnifying glass, and
heap up the adjectives, a habit common to the peo-
ple of the Orient. For them the poorest artist, if he
is only a Jew, becomes something grand.

This apotheosis began with Rachel, who had the
force peculiar to the Jews — a force that has already
captured the ducats of the entire world, and in course
of time will capture everything that remains. The
true picture of Each el was traced by Philarete Chasles,
who said :

" That lascivious Jewess had the instincts of a ti-
gress, but was withal of a sublime intelligence, for she
succeeded in captivating all her contemporaries. It is
said that archbishops blessed her, and that France
wept for her/5

It is superfluous to say that the Jews have not
ceased their praises, until at last they have made
the Gentiles almost believe that Rachel was the noblest
and purest of women.

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The ordinary conditions of morality, such as are
understood by the Gentiles, are completely changed
when they affect a Jew or a Jewess. In 1883 a suit
was instituted against Sarah Bernhardt, in which her
illegitimate children were mixed up in the case. The
Jewish newspaper, Le Gaulois, immediately, in an
article of three columns, sought to convince its read-
ers that these children were the issue of faithful and
devoted love ; that they were children such as mor-
tals no longer produce ; children such as the world
has not seen since the days of Eachel. The article
ends with an incomparable apotheosis of the whole
race.

Good heartedness and good fellowship among artists
of Gentile extraction is a noble trait of the profession.
It is related of poor John McCullough that he would
* often get up from a sick bed to assist or take part in
any benefit given for an impoverished actor. Never,
however, has a star amoaig the Jews been known to
render the slightest aid to a brother artist of Christian
extraction, unless by way of shrew7d advertisement.

In whatever quarter the Jews may establish them-
selves one is certain to find in the neighboring streets
in great numbers gambling dens and houses of prosti-
tution. Now and then we are informed in the morning
press of raids made in certain well-known streets.
If the police of New York were to pay closer atten-
tion to certain uptown streets close upon Lexing-
ton Avenue, for instance, of which avenue the Jews
have taken almost complete possession, they would
find many of the gilded palaces of the metropolis.

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The same is true of the Jewish quarters in Paris. The
streets where the Jews live abound with what the
French call souteneurs, that is to say, supporters of
bad women.

If any one wishes to form a true idea of the condi-
tion and habits of the Jews in Paris for the last few
years, -he should read the book of Mace, entitled, Le
Service cle La Stirete par son Ancieii Chef. In its open
brutality, in its matter-of-fact, dry and cold language,
this work surpasses everything that has been written
about Paris. It discloses the social wounds more cruelly
than the most eloquent pens have heretofore done. Nat-
uralism has never produced a more powerful exposure.
The chapter on Souteneurs is truly sinister. The con-
stantly increasing immorality, owing to the materialistic
doctrines openly advocated by the Jewish press, as well
as the difficulty of obtaining work, have created certain .
classes heretofore unknown to civilization. Mace dis-
tinctly affirms that married -men live from the dis-
honor of their wives, and that it is the husbands who
watch over the debauchery of their better halves. It
is needless to say that the Aryan cannot conceive such
depravity. The men who commit these acts of un-
heard-of wickedness are exclusively of the Semitic
race.

The army of malefactors is recruited from the
souteneurs. They rob the houses in the environs of
Paris, and do not hesitate to fire upon the officers of
the police. Those of the police who do not sympa-
thize with the malefactors are obliged to engage in
desperate fights. The souteneurs assassinate in full mid-

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 233

day ; they assassinate near the bridges and the garden
of the Tuileries. They recently lassoed a man before
the well-known Hill Hotel in Paris, and robbed him.
They stop carriages in the streets, as was the cus-
tom formerly in the highways. In the month of
January, 1885, a lady returning from Bordeaux en-
gaged a cab at a railroad station in Paris, and at Con-
trescarpe Street three malefactors seized the bridle of
the horse, and the lady was obliged to give up all she
possessed.

Travellers are killed in wagons, girls in their beds,
and merchants in their offices. The police fold
their arms before these crimes, utterly powerless to
cope with them, although there are to-day 16,000
policemen in Paris, while under the Empire the to-
tal number was 9,322. The well-known assassin
of a young girl is to be seen every day tranquil-
ly walking the streets. Why is he not arrested ?
His brother Solomon is a member of the po-
lice.

The French papers of a single week in January,
1886, mentioned nine murders and five attempts at
murder.

The beer saloons kept by women are the plague of
this great city. Once there, every son of an honest •
family is forever lost. He is made to drink, he is
made to play, and then he is robbed of all he possess-
es. Never before did human nature degrade itself
to lower depths than it has among these unfortu-
nate women, who depend, upon intoxication for their
livelihood, and who are called " lazy " whenever their

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stomachs rebel There are women who empty as
many as fifty glasses of beer a day :

Albert Delpit says concerning these saloons :

"All the Latin quarter*' which, as is well known,
is inhabited largely by students, " is infested by these
beer saloons kept by women. The students go there,
abandoning their classes and their examinations,
leaving everything in order to run after these women
of the ground floor. ... I entered successfully
into half a dozen of these beer saloons, and everywhere
I saw the same repugnant spectacle : women decoy-
ing and caressing students who, although not more
than fifteen to eighteen years old, were pale and with-
ered beings with an old look upon their faces."

"The spirit of the pander has invaded all classes of
society. The proprietor who rents to a common woman
a lodging at three times its worth ; the saloon keeper
who invites her to his shop in order to draw customers ;
the coal merchant who sells her coal at false weight,
the grocer, the fruiterer, the toilet vender, the dress-
maker who sell to her goods at a greater price than to
others ; even the washerwoman who overcharges — all
these pilferers of various appellations are in reality so
many panders. They all urge her to debauchery, be-
• cause her debauchery is profitable to them."

Mr. Mace addressed reports upon reports, demands
upon demands, to the Chief of Police, asking authority
to cleanse Paris of this filth. He met with a formal
refusal, which he plainly indicates in his book. " The
majority," he says, "of the 'Gonseil Municipal' "
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Aldermen) " are in friendly relations with these ex-
ploiters of vice."

In the month of April, 1883, a few students, less
degenerate than the majority of their comrades, sought
to accomplish the task the police refused to do. In a
single night they would have freed the quarter of the
Jewish element which infests it — an element totally
addicted to pander and to the business of souteneurs.
What did the Commissary of the Police, Schnerb,
the German Jew, brother to thepornographer Schnerb,
do ? He marched at the head of a band of panders
and souteneurs, followed by the police, and rushed
upon the students who, attacked with clubs, were
obliged to retreat. _ What did the people do ? They
rewarded the Jew Schnerb by presenting him with a
baton.

THE INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.

While the Jew is always ready to derive benefit
from everything, he despises manual labor. He ad-
mires exclusively the broker, the banker, the specu-
lator. " When the church," said Blanc de Saint-Bon-
net, "warned the Gentile against the Jew, the Gen-
tile refused to heed. Result — scarcity of useful
things, abundance of superfluous things, penury and
ruin among the masses, in other words, pauperism."

Christian civilization has ennobled, extolled, poet-
ized, as it were, labor. Jewish civilization exploits it
through the Jew capitalist, and disgraces it through
the Jew revolutionary. The Jewish press and the an-
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in Europe, embitter the working man by calling him
a convict.

As the working men gravitate into large cities in
search of work which they do not find, the drinking
saloons in those cities increase. In 1869 there were
366,507 drinking places in Paris. In 1884 there were
more than 500,000.

People pour beverages into their stomachs in order
to experience a sensation that moves, stimulates and
excites the human organization. Women who are
weak and sickly prick their arms to inject morphine
into the body ; the working men drink alcohol : both
experience a passing relief, an exhilaration of the ner-
vous system. The liquor trade is exclusively in
the hands of the Jews, many of whom, although
they do not appear as the real proprietors, still are
silent partners. The real backers of liquor dealers in
K"ew York, as well as in Paris, are the Jews, who
hold in an absolute vassalage all establishments, both
high and low, that retail liquor. The retail merchant
is little better than an employee. He directs the es-
tablishment, which does not belong to him, and the
rent of which is usually paid by those who supply
him with liquors.

A retailer may have five or six different persons who
furnish him with liquors, but one can never find at his
saloon a brand of liquor different from those manu-
factured by the men who supply him with the stuffs.

The liquor business, as it is carried on to-day, has
become a business of chemical products, a business of
coloring materials and ingredients of all kinds such as

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS, 237

are used in the manufacture of liquors. As soon as a
Jew has entered any business, he at once demoralizes
it with his spurious concoctions. It is easily under-
stood how disastrous an influence this peculiar chem-
istry exerts upon private health.

What are called natural or pure wines contain cer-
tain healthful principles, and even when taken im-
moderately produce only a passing inconvenience.

In Bourgogne one may see vine dressers whose full
faces are rubicund with the healthy hue of the autum-
nal vine. Beverages, on the contrary, composed of
essences, do not assimilate, but produce the effect of
virulent poisons, bring on attacks of delirium tre-
mens, fits of frenzy, and acts of ferocity for which the
unfortunate victim is not responsible.

The hatred of the Jew for the poor — a hatred un-
paralleled in the history of the world — has assumed,
of late, various forms. ~Now it is manifested in the
adulteration of liquors ; now it is manifested by the
rich Jew, the member of aristocratic clubs, who asso-
ciates with the vilest of Shylocks, with those who
fleece the poor by advances made upon pawn tickets.

This peculiar business, this, new kind of usury, this
business of advancing a contemptible sum of money,
in return for which pawn tickets are redeemed, is ex-
clusively in the hands of the German Jews.

A German Jew called Neuburger gave, a few years
ago, a considerable impetus to this commerce. He es-
tablished in Paris several branches called Neubur-
gennes. But, unfortunately for ISTeuburger, there still
existed at this time a shadow of justice, and when the

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authorities looked into his books, he was condemned
to prison for ten months.

To-day, however, the Nenburgennes are in full
blast, not only in Paris, but also here in Xew York.
A newspaper called The Battle, in its number of the
25th of January, 1S84, gave a few details respecting
the operations of these agencies, all of which are
bound together by the close ties of a syndicate.

The association has offices in many of the principal
streets. Gilded signs make known the fact that pawn
tickets are both bought and sold. This business is
also carried on in filthy shops, in dens of receivers of
stolen goods, in shop windows furnished with goods
coming from dealers in second-hand goods.

The following narrative, cited in The Battle, maybe
taken as a faithful picture of the manner usually em-
ployed by the Jews in carrying on this nefarious busi-
ness :

"A citizen who has been victimized by these Jews
came to us yesterday and lodged a complaint. He en-
tered into one of these agencies near Lafayette Street.
The street does not improve the character of the busi-
ness. Theft is always theft. Two francs were given
to him for a pawn ticket, and also a piece of yellow
paste-board, which we hold for the inspection of any-
one who may be curious to examine it. This paste-
board is really a bill of sale, and the loan is thus dis-
guised. At the end of a month the citizen returned
and paid another month's interest, which was twenty
per cent, making two hundred and forty per cent a
year. When two weeks later he went to redeem his

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239

pawn ticket, he was told to come again, and finally,
after haying called seven times, he was told that his
ticket had been lost.

Armed with his little yellow pasteboard, the victim
summoned the lender before the court. The Jew
thereupon put his hand upon his heart and swore that
he had bought the ticket. To prove it he showed the
word, 'paid/ upon the bit of pasteboard, and the
following notice written in small letters : ' To avoid
all misunderstanding, it is hereby understood that
this transaction is a sale and not a loan/ Owing to
this perfidious line, the Jews make dupes of their
clients."

It is impossible to realize how much poor men often
value certain objects, mute but eloquent witnesses of
their domestic life, such as the rattle, the cup of the
child, .or the marriage ring bought during more pros-
perous days. Some will agree to pay twice the inter-
est asked on condition that a longer time be allowed
them to redeem these sacred pledges.

It will astonish our readers, but nevertheless it is
a fact to learn that the wealthy, the aristocratic Jew
bankers furnish the capital for this nefarious bus-
iness. To them, from time to time, is rendered an ac-
count of the profits that have accrued.

" It is not rare," says Mace, " to see before the shops
of these cutthroats the equipage of a rich man, dressed
in the latest fashion. It is the Jew financier who is
there to examine the accounts." In 2s~ew York, how-
ever, it is the Shylock, the cutthroat, who goes to see
the rich Jew in his office, where in "private" these

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accounts are settled. The smaller scoundrel brings
books and vouchers, all of which are carefully ex-
amined, by his bigger confederate.

The furniture stores that sell on credit, at three
hundred per cent, profit, present another form of Jew-
ish usury. The following incident came recently to
our notice. A workingman went to a furniture store,
on Eighth Avenue, that sells uyoost zame, cretid or
cash, and selected certain furniture; the whole bill
amounted to $75. He paid $12 on account. An
hour or two later he decided to change a few of the
articles selected, but was told that this could not be
done, and that he must either take all the goods he
had selected, or lose the $12 he had paid on account.

Advances on furniture constitute another form of
Jewish usurv. The usual amount varies from $10
to $50, " without removal," which the Jew vulture
advances on the furniture. In return a bill of sale
on the property is given, but the amount advanced is
raised $10 or $15 "for dhe druble of drawing bapers,"
and then besides the legal interest is added. If the
money is not promptly paid, the furniture is seized,
sold and bought by a Jew confederate.

How will all this end ? Surely in revolution. It
has already begun in Russia, whence a great many
Jews have been expelled and a part of their ill-gotten
possessions taken from them, while the tolerated Jews
have been put under special police regulations.

In a society like that of our time, in which senti-
ments of right are rare, where people suffer from the
usuries of the Jew, where selfishness reigns triuni-

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241

phant and men for the most part pursue whatever
they think conducive to their own pleasure or interest,
the final catastrophe, I repeat it, is only a question
of time. There is not a thoughtful man that does
not foresee the coming insurrection. Talk with the
minister of the church, who watches at a distance the
storm that threatens, or with the man about town,
who takes little thought of the morrow, and you will
find that both have the same forebodings.

" Some day that perhaps is not far distant," writes
Aurelien Schroll, "the boiler will explode. Great
financial institutions will collapse like over-inflated
balloons. There will be only ruin among us, recall-
ing Ischia after the earthquake." It will not be the
end of the world, but it will be the end of the world
we have described.

For one I shall not regret it.

THE JEWS5 HATKED OF CHILDKEN.

Servility, which often drives man to espouse the
cause of the stronger, assumes among the Jews a pe-
culiar character of bitterness that manifests itself in
religious persecution. Nothing has undergone change
among the Jews. They hate Christ in 1887 pre-
cisely as they hated him in the time of Augus-
tus. To lash the crucifix on Good Friday, to pro-
fane the consecrated wafers, to contaminate the holy
images, was the great joy of the Jews during the mid-
dle ages, and the same is their joy to-day. Formerly
they satisfied their venom by killing Christian chil-
dren ; to-day they assail them with their atheistic
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teachings. Formerly they bled them : to-clay they
poison them. Which of the two is the more criminal ?

While affirming the persistency of hatred among
the Jews, it may not be amiss to speak somewhat fully
of their bloody sacrifices, accusations a thousand
times proven, and against which the Jews always de-
fend themselves with the impudence that character-
izes them.

" Has this custom truly existed among them ? 99
Kenan, apropos of the affair of Tisza Elzlar, gave to
the Jews a certificate of good character. " Among the
calumnies," he says, "engendered by hate and fanati-
cism, there is certainly none more absurd than that
which affirms that the Jews shed blood at their relig-
ious feasts. To believe such stories is nothing less
than a monstrous folly. "

Unfortunately numberless facts contradict the sus-
picious assertion of Kenan.

In 1071, at Blois, a child was crucified by the Jews,
and then cast into the river. In 1114, in Norwich,
England, a child twelve years old was coaxed into a
Jewish house, and was frightfully tortured. In 11T9
a child that the Catholic Church venerates under the
name of St. Kiehard, and whose feast occurs the 25th
of March, was assassinated by the Jews on Easter
Sunday. In 1236, near Haguenau, three children
were sacrificed by the Jews. In 1244 a Christian
child was made to suffer martyrdom. In 1255 a
child in Lincoln, England, was concealed until Eas-
ter, and then the Jews collected from all parts of Eng-
land and crucified it. In 1257 and in 1261 the same

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243

crimes were committed by the Jews at Welsenbourg.
In 1261, at Pfortzheim, near Baden, a little girl seven
years old was strangled by the Jews. In 1283, at
Mayence, a child was sold by her nurse to the Jews,
who killed it. In 1285, at Munich, a child was bled
to death. In 1286 a child fourteen years old, named
Uthernher, was made to suffer martyrdom, three days
being consumed in putting it to death. In 1287, at
Berne, a little boy, Kudolph by name, was killed dur-
ing Easter. In 1292, 1293 and 1295 the same crimes
were committed at Berne. In 1303 a little boy, Conrad
by name, the son of a soldier, was killed by the Jews.
In 1345, Henry, who has been canonized by the Cath-
olic Church, was strangled by the Jews. In 1401,
at Dussenlofen, in Wurtemburg, a child four years old
suffered death at the hands of the Jews in the same
way. In 1407 the Jews were expelled from that coun-
try in consequence of these crimes. In 1429, at Eo-
vensbourg, Louis Yon Bruck was killed by the Jews
at Easter. In 1454, in Castile, a child was cut to
pieces by the Jews, and his heart was thrown to the
dogs. In 1462 a child called Andrea was crucified.
In 1475 Simon, who has also been canonized by the
Catholic Church, was killed by the Jews at Trente.
In 1480 a repetition of the same crimes occurred in
Venice. In 1486, at Eatisbonne, six children were
killed by the Jevv7s. In 1520, at Biring, two children
were bled to death by the Jews. In 1541 a child four
years old, Michael by name, was tortured for three
days and then put to death. In 1547, at Eave, a
child was strangled by the Jew Jacques de Leozyka.

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In 1547 a little girl seven years old was assassinated
by the Jew Joachim Smieilaviez. In 1597 the Jews
strangled a child in order to sprinkle with its blood
their new synagogue. In 1550. at Ladaen, a child
five years old. Matthews by nanie, was assassinated.
In 16 TO the Jew. Raphael Levy, was cast into the
flames for having bled to death a child.

Similar crimes to this day are committed in the
Orient.

All the above-named crimes are attested by nu-
merous historians, whose testimony, were it produced,
would prolong this book beyond its prescribed limits.

Mr. Kupert, in his History of the Synagogue, has
cited a few of the most striking facts.

There is not a historian of the middle ages that
does not mention these murders by the Jews. It is
stated that the Jews of Xorwich captured a Christian
child before Easter, tortured it exactly in the same
manner as our Lord was tortured by the Jews, and on
Good Friday they hanged it and then burned it.

Chaucer is, however, the most interesting writer
that can be consulted upon the subject. His remains
lie at Westminster, and he was the true painter of the
customs of his times. The Canterbury Tales are a
sort of Decameron. In The Prioress's Tale we are
introduced to a horrible crime committed by " the
cursed Jew." who seized a small boy " young and ten-
der was of age/*7 held him fast, cut his throat, and
threw him into a pit.

These proofs, we repeat, can be multiplied at pleas-
ure.

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS, 245

La Civilta Cattolica, in its number of April 1,
1882, has reproduced all the legal documents relating
to the trial held at Trent, in 1475, which documents
are preserved among the Vatican Archives. There is
nothing more absorbing than the facts connected with
this trial — incontestable facts — and nothing more
cynical can be thought of than the confession of the
accused themselves. A whole phase of a past epoch
suddenly appears before us. A Jew, eighty years
old, called " Old Moses/' made use of Christian blood
during his whole lifetime. There existed dealers in
Christian blood, like Isaac of Cologne and Eichard of
Brescia, who supplied all demands. Ours, of Saxony,
was the drummer, the commercial representative of
these murderous wretches. This Ours went from
city to city, from ghetto to ghetto, offering his
frightful merchandise, armed with a letter of recom-
mendation from Rabbi Spring. Another of the ac-
cused, Vitale, alias Levita, was initiated into the mys-
teries of this business by his uncle Solomon, who lived
at Monza. The blood of the Gentiles was mixed into
cakes in the form of a triangle, which were distributed
in the synagogues. In later years the trial of Ra-
phael Levy, which took place in 1670, may also be
cited to show the abominations practised by the Jews.
This crime was committed in France, and all the
documents to this day can be examined by any one
interested. We have an excellent guide in the ac-
count given by a conscientious historian, Amelot de
la Houssaye, in his work entitled, An Abridgment
of the Trial made against the Jeivs of Metz :

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i£ Wednesday, the 23rd of September, 1669, about
one o'clock in the afternoon, one Mangeotte Wiflemin3
wife to Gilles le Moine, went to a fount distant
about two hundred paces from where she lived to
wash clothes. She was followed by her child, three
years old, who wore a red hat and had blond curly
hair. At a distance of about twenty-five steps from
the fountain the child slipped and fell, and as the
mother turned to pick him up, the child said he would
himself rise, whereat the mother continued on her
way, believing that the child was following. About
a quarter of an hour afterward, the mother, not see-
ing her child, ran back to the spot where she had
left him, and not finding him, returned to her house
where she asked her husband, her father-in-law and her
mother-in-law whether they had seen the child any-
where. Upon receiving a negative answer, they all
supposed that the child had lost its way, and under
this apprehension they vainly searched for it in the vil-
lage. They then returned to the fountain, accompanied
by the burgomaster of the place, examined carefully the
bushes, called the child by name, shouted and searched,
but all to no purpose. The child could not be
found. The mother, thereupon, in company with her
father-in-law, went upon the highway leading to
Metz, and there they found traces of the child,
which they followed until they were lost among the
tracks of the wagons and the horses. She then
returned to her husband, told him of her discovery,
and he forthwith started for the same path, where
he met a horseman belonoino: to the escort of

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 247

Count de Vaudemont, and asked him whether he
had seen a child. The horseman replied that a
short time before he had met a Jew, mounted upon
a white horse, going toward Metz, having a child with
him that appeared to be from three to four years
old. The Jew, upon meeting him, turned out of
the road and passed by at a distance of about a
pistol shot.

" The father, who saw by the description that the
Jew had probably stolen his child, went in pursuit.
Upon reaching the gates of the city, he asked of those
present whether they had seen a Jew pass the gates.
One, called Thibault Eegnault, told him that he saw
a Jew enter, but this information was of little avail,
because Eegnault could not tell where the Jew had
gone, nor where he had taken the child. However,
the father having learned almost at the same time
that the Jew was Baphael Levy of Boulay, and
that on that same day he had been seen upon the
pathway carrying something before him which he
anxiously covered with his mantle, and further-
more that when in Metz he lived at the house of
one Gallon, a Jew arid a relative of his, went
forthwith to the house of the said Jew to ask
for his child. Upon reaching the house, he was
told that they knew nothing, and that the master of
the house was not in, whereupon the father made
up his mind to wait, and having noticed while
in the house a woman, he told her that he was search-
ing for his child. Soon afterwards a young Jewess en-
tered, returning from the city, and she cautioned the

248 TEE ORIGINAL 3IE. JACOBS.

woman in German to say not a word in regard to the
child. Upon hearing the words of the young girl, the
father, who knew German, no longer entertained any
doubts as to the fate of his son, arid thereafter he was
possessed of one thought only — to avenge himself
upon Eaphael Levy."

Eaphael Levy was a man fifty-six years old, of me-
dium size, with curly hair and with a black, bushy
beard. He was a very zealous Israelite, had travelled
through the Orient, and also in Italy, Germany and
Holland, and was trusted with many a matter respect-
ing the welfare of the Jewish religion.

The trial was a repetition of all trials instituted
against the Jews. Ail the Israelites of the country
were aroused, and brought forward false witnesses,
but, unfortunately for them, they produced also a cer-
tain correspondence which it was supposed would be
of benefit to the accused, but which proved the strong-
est possible evidence of his guilt.

In one of these letters the accused wrote to the
chiefs of the synagogue in Metz :

" Dear Directors : The servant of the turnkey informed
me that the Jew who brings food to me, told her that the child
is in safety. Ah, write to me that I may know how matters
stand and who are the witnesses. Write to me any way, that I
may receive some consolation. The Hainan [Raphael Levy gave
the name of Hainan (Aman) to the chief attorney, in remem-
brance of Aman, whose name has to this day remained odious
among the Jews] was now in ]3rison. . . . Keep an eye upon
the Parliament. I pray that I may be assisted, and that I may
be freed of this misery. ... I will surfer death as a true
son of Israel. . . . I only ask that my wife and children may

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not be left in want. I brought upon myself this misery for the
sake of the community."

Another letter is curious, owing to the details it fur-
nishes respecting the Jewish customs. They sent to
the accused a bit of straw, with instructions to put it
under his tongue at the time of his cross-examination,
in order to render his judges favorable to him. They
also advised him to pronounce, as a sort of incanta-
tion, five Hebrew words.

In the mean time, the Jews held repeated councils at
the house of one of the most zealous of their co-re-
ligionists, Gideon Levy, and they sought recourse to a
stratagem, analogous to the story of the children of
Jacob, wTho, after having sold their brother, told
their father that a wild beast had devoured him.
They announced that the missing child had been
devoured by wolves, and exposed the clothes of the
child in a distant wood. They stretched his shirt
upon a thicket, and scattered about a few of the arti-
cles belonging to the child. Then they advised sev-
eral persons of the neighborhood to search in the
woods, telling them that if they could but find some
remnant of the child, they would be rewarded with
large sums of money. A woman living near the
wood deposed before the court that three Jews of
Metz, whose names were not known to her, sought to
find out from her what the people said about the
stolen child. The Jews, furthermore, told her that
the child was devoured by wolves, whereupon she
told them that they ought to search the woods, for
some remnant of the child would doubtless be found.

250 THE- ORIGIXAL JIB, JACOBS.

Ill fact a few days later, the 26th of September. 1669,
four pig drivers found the head of a child, and
stretched upon some bushes tvro little dresses, a wool-
len stocking and a red hat, the whole without being-
torn and without any marks of blood.

When these facts had been communicated to the
father of the child, as well as to the prosecuting at-
torney, the court sent an officer to the wood to ex-
amine the condition in which the aboye-named articles
had been found, and also to examine the ground.
The pig drivers testified^that owing to the condition
m which the clothes had been found it was not
possible that the child could have been devoured by
wild beasts, for besides the fact that the clothes were
not in the least torn or bloody, it was well known that
ferocious beasts first of all devour the head of any do-
mestic animal attacked by them. In this case the head
had been found a few steps from where the articles
belonging to the child were discovered.

This manoeuvre, the only one that could succeed,
and one which had previously succeeded in Austria,
where the Jews have always been powerful, had little
chance of success in a country like France, in the sev-
enteenth century, where the court was absolutely
unbiassed, and judged according to the facts with-
out in the least beins: influenced bv outside con-
siderations.

The neighbors deposed that they had seen Gideon
Levy, carrying a basket, enter and leave the wood
shortly before the clothes and the head of the child
were found. Another witness asserted that the said

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251

Gideon told him to search for the remains, and had
pointed out to him the spot in the wood where prob-
ably the said remains could be found.

Gideon was thrown into prison and the trial or-
dered to proceed. The crime was now proved. Con-
victed by overwhelming testimony, Eaphael Levy was
condemned to be burned alive, and the sentence of the
court was carried out on the 17th of January, 1670.
The death of the man was truly heroic. He bade
farewell to a few of his co-religionists, begged them to
protect and care for his wife and children, and not
content with their promise to do so, he made them
swear it. He refused to drink the wine they brought
him, because it was not Jcascher, cast away the taper
that was given him to hold, and gave a vigorous
blow with his elbow to the priest who sought to exhort
him, declaring in a loud voice that he was a Jew, and
wished to die a Jew. " His soul," the Jews declared,
"flew one Saturday with holiness and purity into the
bosom of God."

The Jews at large did not look upon the murder of
the child as a crime, but as the accomplishment of an
act imposed upon them by their religion. They vene-
rated the man who, as he himself declared, had sacri-
ficed himself for the community. In a word, Eaphael
Levy was a martyr. Although be had been illiterate,
after his death he was proclaimed a rabbi. When his
name is pronounced by the Jews he is alluded to as
Kadosch, the Saint, and Chasid, the Pious. The Ar-
chives Israelites proposed a few years ago to erect a
statue to his memory.

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Gideon Levy was banished. The facts brought out
by this crime made still more manifest the habit con-
stant among the Jews of outraging the faith of others,
and of ridiculing the ceremonies of the Christian
religion. On Good Friday of each year the Jews
assembled at the house of one Schaub, where thev
ridiculed the passion of Christ, and lashed the cru-
cifix.

In connection with the affair of Eaphael Levy,
which does not leave the slightest doubt that blood
was used by the Jews in their ceremonies, we will
mention the murder of Father Thomas in Damascus,
in 1840, the details of which are well known, and the
evidence of which crime it is impossible to deny, since
it took place in our day.

Father Thomas, a Capuchin, was loved by all in Da-
mascus. He practised medicine at the same time that
he acted as missionary. He saved the soul and took
care of the bod}-.

Christians, Turks and Jews were unanimous in
praise of his talents and his inexhaustible charity.
All called him the sainted missionary. He had the
confidence of all classes of society.* But it was espe-
cially towards the Jews that Father Thomas had shown
himself kind, owing to his zeal in winning their souls
to God. One day when he was menaced with death
by a native whose marriage he refused to bless, he
extended to him his neck, saying, " I am ready to die,
but will not fail in my duty.'' "While the pest
ravaged Damascus he shut himself in with the pest-
stricken and lavished upon them his attentions. He

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253

never hesitated at any sacrifice where good could be
done to his fellow-man. Scheriff Pasha, the Turkish
governor, honored him with his friendship, and or-
ders were given to his servants to admit the father to
his presence at any hour' that he might call. There
were found, however, miserable fanatics who murdered
that good man. As he was passing one evening, on
the 5th of February, 1840, before the house of a Jew
called David Harari, he was asked by the latter to
step in. Father Thomas accepted the invitation, for
David Harari was considered the most pious Jew in
Damascus.

No sooner was the door closed upon the father,
than David Harari, his two brothers, his uncle and
Wo other Jews fell upon the poor missionary, knocked
him down and tightly bound him.

Then the Eabbi Chakam and Soliman, the Jew bar-
ber, were asked to come to the house. The latter was
ordered to cut the throat of the victim, and as he lacked
courage, David Harari, the good and faithful friend
of the father, seized the knife. But his hand, too,
trembled, whereat his brother Aaron came to his aid,
while Soliman held the head of the father by the
beard.

The blood was collected, put into a bottle and was
sent to the Grand Eabbi. The body, despoiled of its
clothes, was cut into small pieces and thrown into a
sink. The miserable Jews thought thus to cause to
disappear forever every trace of their victim.

"When night came Ibrahim Amoran, the father's
servant, uneasy at not seeing the priest return, and

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knowing him to be in the Jewish Quarter, went to
look for trim. He there met the same fate as his mas-
ter. Like him. he was seized and assassinated by the
Jews, to have, as the V Union cT Alsace-Lorraine as-
serted, Christian blood to put into the sweetbreads
used for the feast of the Purim. But these disappear-
ances were soon noticed. The truth was suspected.
The French Consul energetically entered into the
matter and demanded an inquiry. It became known
that Soliman, the Jew barber, had been called during
the night to the house of David Harari. He was ar-
rested, questioned, and upon his confession the re-
mains of the father were found, and the authors of the
crime were apprehended.

Out of sixteen persons arrested, two died during the
trial, four were pardoned, among whom was Soliman,
on account of the evidence he gave, and ten were con-
demned to death.

The Jews again gave, during this trial, a new ex-
ample of their admirable solidarity. All Europe was
put in motion. Cremieux and Montefiore hastened to
Damascus. They were unable, however, to prevent
the condemnation, since the facts were proved. But
they renewed their efforts, spent money without stint,
and finally succeeded in obtaining from the Viceroy
the pardon of the ten who were condemned. They
did not justify nor excuse the guilty ones. They
simply purchased their pardon.

The Moniteur de Borne, in its issue of the 15th
June, 1883, cites many crimes committed by the
Jews.

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255

" A few years ago in Smyrna, a little child belonging
to one of the first Greek families of the city was stolen
about the time of the Jewish Easter. Four days later,
at the sea-shore, his body was found, pricked with a
thousand pins. The mother, crazed with grief, loudly
accused the Jews of this murder. The Christian popu-
lation rose in a body and hastened to the Jewish quar-
ter, where a frightful massacre took place. More than
a thousand Jews were butchered.

"Last year (1882) at Balata, the Jewish Quarter
of Constantinople, a child was coaxed into a Jew's
house. More than twenty witnessess saw him enter.
The following day his body was found in the Golden
Horn. The result was again an uprising of the Gen-
tiles that cost the Jews the lives of more than a hun-
dred of their co-religionists !

"At Galata the same thing took place. Lawyer
Serouios, the most prominent lawyer of the Greek com-
munity, addressed a petition to the representatives of
the Powers, demanding justice. But the Jews bribed
the Turkish police, which hushed up matters, and
caused the witnesses to disappear. The Jews agreed
to give a large sum of money to the parents of the
murdered child/'

In the beginning of 1883, two children of Maltese
families were stojpn by a Jew. The newspaper
Stamboul, upon information furnished by the father
of one of the stolen children, called the attention of
the police to the crime, and demanded the punish-
ment of the guilty parties. The affair created great
excitement in the city, and almost caused a revolu-

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THE ORIGINAL ME. JACOBS.

tion. The chief of the Pera police. Vahri Pasha, and

the Commissary of the Police at Galata. who had charge
of the affair, refused, in the face of overwhelming facts,
to interrogate the father and the mother of the child. A
thousand francs a month were offered to the editor of
the St a ml) oul to stop making any further mention of
the matter. It was indignantly refused. What did
the Jews do ? They bribed the police and obtained
the suppression of the newspaper, and thus the matter
was hushed up.

Even in Europe crimes of this kind are only too
common. In 1SS1, at Lutcza, a small village in Aus-
trian Galicia, a young girl called Francesca Mnisk was
stolen by the Jews. Three of these, Moses Bitter,
his wife and Stochtinski, were accused, tried, found
guilty and condemned to death.

Unable to deny these facts, the Jews have alwavs
claimed thai these acts were inspired by individual
animosity, and were not the outcome of religious pre-
cept. There again German science has convicted
them of lying. Dr. Justus, in his Judens Spiegel,
says :

"The theological books of the Jews are divided
into two categories, to wit : Pescliath and Kalala.
To the first category belong the Talmud and the
Schidelian. According to the Sqjiulchan ArucJi. it
is not a crime if a Jew kills a Christian. (Laws 50
and 81). In the Talmud, published m Amsterdam
in 1646, the Jews are ordered to exterminate the dis-
ciples of Xazarem."

"It is astonishing,'* says the Doctor, "that the

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257

blood of the Klipoth, that is to say, of girls not Jew-
esses, is claimed to be a sacrifice agreeable to Heaven.
Still the sacred books of the Jews exj^ressly state, to
shed the blood of a young girl, not a Jewess, is a
sacrifice as sacred as that of the most precious per-
fumes, and a means to reconcile oneself with God and
to draw down his blessing."

This fact, at any rate, has been completely demon-
strated in a very interesting work entitled, Refutation
of the Religion of the Jews and of their Rites, demon-
strated ly the Old and the Xeiu Testament. The au-
thor is a Jew rabbi, converted to Christianity, and who
later became a Greek monk.

Nothing is more singular than the fate of this
book, even for those who know with how great care the
Israelites cause everything to disappear that is calcu-
lated to enlighten public opinion about them. It was
first published in 1803, in the Moldavian tongue, from
which it was translated into the Greek language, and
from the latter into the Arabic. Afterward it was
printed at intervals in Eoumania, Constantinople,
and in many cities in the Orient, but strangely
enough it was next to impossible to obtain a copy.
" This is owing," said a historian, ';to the fact that
the Jews are ever ready to spend money to obliterate
the memory of this work."

An edition printed in the Greek language was
published in 1834. It is now well-nigh impossible
to obtain a copy in Greek, but ip. 1883 a translation
of the work from Greek intfS^ialian made its ap-
pearance.

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258

THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS,

The zeal that the Jews display in obliterating every
trace of the Italian edition may well be imagined, and
the Archives Israelites gave vent to savage outbursts of
rage upon the appearance of the work.

An entire phase of the life of the middle ages is
depicted in this interesting book. A thousand hith-
erto secret matters are brought to light, and hitherto
impenetrable mysteries are made clear. We are in-
troduced into the den of the Jew alchemist, where
we find him occupied in concocting strange mixtures
demanding Christian blood, wThich blood he claimed
was necessary in the discovery of the philosopher's
stone, but in reality was used to celebrate the mon-
strous rites, the abominable mysteries of Ashtoreth,
The miserable dupes who believed in the possibility of
discovering the philosopher's stone were used as the
instruments of crimes that cost the lives of hun-
dreds of Gentiles.

What is worshipped in a Ghetto is not the God of
Moses ; it is the frightful Semitic Moloch, who claims
as victims children and virgins.

What else has the existence of ancient Israel been
but a perpetual struggle between Molochism and Je-
hovism ? Moloch, whose symbol was a Carthaginian
bronze bull, which bull, filled with human victims, at
stated intervals was heated reel hot, was above all a
Semitic divinity. It is towards him and towards Baal,
whose symbol was a donkey, that the Jews are con-
stantly drawn, being attracted by race. It is he whom
Manasse and the other lying kings installed in the
Moloch temple. It is to him that frightful sacrifices

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were offered on lofty places. It is against liim that
the prophets opposed themselves unceasingly with an
energy in their indignation and a violence in their
language that still sounds through centuries. They
defied death in order to fight idolatry, and announced
future punishment for the idolater. In their intrepid
zeal they did not hesitate to demolish the false Sem-
itic gods, the shameful and barbarous images. There is
many a page in the Bible that mentions the efforts of the
prophets to defend the idea of the true God against
the corrupting influences of the neighboring people.

The Talmud itself warns the Jews against their
habit of drinking warm blood, either during the chase
or before the Temple :

" Only be firm. Do not give way ; resist the incli-
nation to drink blood. Xo, you must not drink it ;
pour it upon the soil like water*"

The regulations relative to meat, still observed by
the Jews of the present day, serve as remembrances
of these precautions against the love of blood peculiar
to the Semitic race, a taste altogether unknown among
the Aryans.

The German writers have thoroughly elucidated
these facts. The book of Frederick Daumer, The
Worship) of Moloch among the Heir etc s of Antiquity^
and that of T. W. Ghillany, entitled Human Sacri-
fices among the Jews of Old, have both arrived at the
same conclusions.

Both these books show the close relationship exist-
ing between the customs of the Israelites and the
bloody holocausts of the middle ages.

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THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS.

An old engraving by Sadler represents a table of
stone that was used for the murder of six children.
The following text accompanies the engraving : % The
mutilated bodies of the six children have been discov-
ered through the efforts of the Governor of Katis-
bonne. The sacrificers had in their strange sanctuary
a large stone, mounted upon a pedestal. It was the
altar upon which the victims were sacrificed. Back
of this sanctuary there was a laboratory devoted to
the manufacture of spurious coins."

Another engraving by Sadler represents the mur-
der of a child by the Jews of Munich, which murder
gave rise to the persecution of the Jews in 1285.
The victim was bound upon a table in the syna-
gogue, and was pierced with implements having sharp
points. Its eyes were plucked out. The blood was
gathered by Jewish children. The Gentiles became
almost frenzied, savagely attacked the Jews, and the
full authority of the bishop was called into requisi-
tion before the people could be stopped. These two
engravings were reproduced in the beautiful scientific
publication entitled Cosmos, May 30, 1885.

Owing to a phenomenal retrogradation, the Jews of
the middle ages returned to their primitive errors,
and yielding to the first impulse of their race, plunged
once more into sacrifices.

To these reminiscences of Phoenician abominations
there was added a strange, but excusable, sentiment.
The Jew was troubled by that atmosphere of ardent
faith that reigned around him during the first centu-
ries of Christianity, and was awed by the miracles

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261

performed by the saints. In vain did he try to op-
pose himself to the truth. He had moments of terri-
ble anxiety. He was moved by the clear sense of cer-
tain prophecies, and he believed that if Christ was
the Messiah, a drop of a Christian's blood absorbed by
one who was circumcised was sufficient for his salva-
tion.

The book we have mentioned above, entitled Refu-
tation of the Religion of the Jews, written by a con-
verted rabbi, contains full directions for the use of hu-
man blood in the various ceremonies of the Jews for
their funerals, as well as the Purim, etc.

Oral tradition, which transmits itself from father
to son, renders the Jews strong by the habit of keep-
ing in common a terrible secret, and of preserving
the mysteries of Judaism.

To communicate the secrets of Israel, the father
was wont to choose among his sons the one who seemed
to him most worthy of confidence. This communica-
tion was made at a time when the Jews place upon
the head of the child what is called the crown of
courage. The father initiated his son and made
him swear, in the most solemn manner, never to reveal
anything, to his brothers, sisters, mother or any liv-
ing creature, and above all to no woman.

"'My son/ the converted rabbi who transmits to
us the details reports the father to have said, 'may
the earth refuse burial to your body, may she repulse
you from her bosom after death, if ever, no matter
in what persecution you may find yourself, you make
known what I impart to you. Be silent, even if you

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should become a Christian for your own interest or
any motive whatsoever/ "

Is it only the Jews in the Orient, and other dis-
tant semi-civilized countries, where bloody sacrifices
are still common, that still adhere to these prac-
tices ? We are not far from believing that certain
isolated cases that from time to time increase the
number of undiscovered crimes, as for instance the
disappearance of children, or any other enigmatical
disappearance upon which no possible light can be
thrown, could be traced, if careful investigation were
made in this direction.

Human sacrifices that proceed from the aversion
of the Jews for the Gentile, and are encouraged by
their religious books, have certainly nothing in com-
mon with the law of Moses. These sacrifices rep-
resent a crisis, one of the phases in the eventful
career of this strange people — a phase, for instance,
that may be termed the warlike or patriotic phase,
which was manifested in their defence against the
Eomans ; the conspirator's phase, manifested during
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in their con-
spiracy against the Crusaders ; the dark and bloody
phase displayed after their failure in that con-
spiracy ; the phase of seclusion and meditation
manifested during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, and finally the socialistic, financial and
cosmopolitan phase so manifest to-day.

Still to this day their hatred of Christ, of the Gen-
tiles, has remained as keen as ever.

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less interesting than the historical, of which we haye
just spoken, if the learned, for good reasons, did not
abstain from touching upon this question. Were the
Jew analyzed psychologically, the resemblance of the
ciyilized Jew to the real Jew of the Orient would be
striking in the extreme.

The cause of this hatred felt by the Jew, eyen
against inanimate objects, enters into the category of
those phenomena at once moral and psychological,
which Eibot has so thoroughly described in his book
On Heredity. In yiew of this almost inexorable char-
acter of heredity, we must not forget the curious re-
mark of a German doctor, who stated that many Jews
are born circumcised.

Accordingly the hatred of the Jew, which thus
manifests itself from generation to generation, can be
explained. The yulgar inyectiyes against Christ, the
Church and the clergy, which at times we find among
the Gentiles, do not emanate from any real sentiment
of this sort among the masses of Aryan origin. It is
absolutely artificial, it is cultivated and spread by the
Jews, with that ability which they exercise in promoting
a financial affair. That the masses of Aryan origin
really hold to the traditions of their faith, and that
any movement on their part against the same is only
artificial, can be seen every day. Shortly after the
Commune twenty thousand people followed the coffin
of Father Philip, and the less religious among the
working men spoke with affection and respect of the
good father who had elevated them and made them
honest people.

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This and other examples that could be adduced
tend to show that the people, even those who have be-
come indifferent to their faith, still cling to the re-
ligion of their ancestors by the ties of remembrance.
Long after the appearance of Christ, the Eomans still
remained attached to their Penates, and to the genius
of the place, which was associated with the very exist-
ence of family. Baptism, the first communion, the re-
ligious marriage, are still revered and are dear to the
majority of Parisians, even among those whose faith
seems to have ceased to animate their conscience.

Among the illiterate Jews, this hatred of the Chris-
tian emanates from that form of brutal movement
known as "irresistible impulse," so common among
the alienated. As an illustration we give the follow-
ing examples of occurrences which take place nearly
every day in various countries in Europe and Asia.

On the 2d of February, 1881, it was a Jew who dis-
turbed a funeral ceremony. " A deplorable incident
took place the day before yesterday in the St. Eus-
tache Church. The two poor girls who perished in
the fire of the Deux-Ecus Street were being buried.
A large crowd was present during this sorrowful cere-
mony, when suddenly a clamor arose. A drunkard
entered and found it amusing to cry at the top of his
voice.

" The janitor endeavored to put the man out, but a
number of his companions entered, and stopped the
janitor from doing so. When the police arrived and
took the ruffian to the station, he gave his name as
Eugene David."

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265

The Gaulois, of October 24, 1882, related the fol-
lowing :

"A man about forty years old entered the Church
of St. Bonaventure with his hat on his head. He ad-
vanced toward the altar, struck the priest, and seizing
the communion cup dashed it upon the ground. . . .
All this was done in the twinkling of an eye. When
the people recovered from their stupor and arrested
the man, he declared before the magistrate that he
was a Jew."

In the month of December, 1885, La France re-
lated how another Jew, called Weber, entered a
church with his hat on, smoking a cigar, swearing at
the top of his voice at the clergy and those present.
The police had to be summoned to drive away the
intruder.

On the 1st of March, 1882, a number of Jews or-
ganized at Koubaix an impious masquerade.

"It is an incredible fact," stated the Journal of
that locality, "that no active steps have been taken
against the scoundrels who organized the outrageous
masquerade aimed against the clergy." Upon a cart a
confessional was placed ; on the top of the confessional
was a strong iron box. A person clothed in ecclesi-
astical garments sat inside the confessional, while a
number of Jewesses, dressed in the costume of Sisters
of Charity, were kneeling in turn before the priest,
and pretending to confess to him, after which they
gave him a piece of money, kissed him, and then re-
tired making the sign of the cross.

" The outraged public sought to put an end to this

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loathsome spectacle, but a number of Jew policemen
in front, of the cart protected it against any hostile
demonstration."

Everywhere where attacks of this sort are organized,
if the facts were to be looked into it would become
known that the said attacks were conceived by some
low, vulgar German J ew.

The law laid down by Maxime du Camp is abso-
lutely true, in a physical as well as in a moral point of
view : " The closer men are united through religion
to Judaism, the dirtier they are. The more they
are removed from Judaism, the cleaner they are."

Many an example could be cited to show how this
sentiment of heredity, of irresistible impulse, is com-
mon among the Jews of all classes.

Herold, who in 1869 sought to obtain a political
position in Prance, in vain protested against public
opinion which affirmed his Jewish origin. He time
and again protested that he was not a Jew. His ap-
pearance, however, belied his words. No doubt he
may have belonged to the class of Jew interlopers,
who claim not to be of any religion. Still it suffices
to examine the type in order to ascertain the truth.
The grandfather of Herold was an obscure professor
of music, while his son employed his time in compos-
ing music. He was powerfully assisted by the Jews,
who declared that the world never saw anything more
remarkable than the author of Zampa. The grandson,
who obtained the position of chief magistrate, de-
clared that he was a Protestant, although he was never
known to have been converted to Protestantism,

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"When, however, occasion was favorable, hereditary
hatred, irresistible impulse, the venom of the Ger-
man Jew manifested itself. The grandson of the
humble music composer became the well-known,
frantic, bloodthirsty animal, the moving spirit in car-
rying out the law that the Jews in France passed
against the clergy. He was the man who, at the head
of a crowd of Jews, piled up in ash-carts every cross
they could seize, a number of which were torn from
the burial grounds. He could be seen stamping his
feet with joy at every act of infamy ; but finally when
he died he inspired even men of the lowest instincts
with disgust.

This phenomenal hatred is nothing less than atav-
ism, the disease that manifests itself in a subsequent
generation after an intermission of a generation or
two. The author of Zampa appears in his portraits
a little melancholy, but not Avicked. The lower part
of his face is as viperine as that of his son, the magis-
trate, but otherwise he looks very much like one of
the old Frankfort usurers. At the same time an im-
pression of revery and of sadness tempers the repul-
siveness of his countenance, and even lends a charm
to his deceitful eyes.

On the other hand those who saw the picture of
Herold know how repulsive he was with his bleared,
watery eyes, his enormous maxillary bones, and his
mouth contracted as if by a frightful grimace. Im-
mediately after the musician whom Parisian atmos-
phere rendered, so to speak, supple and civilized,
nature brought forth a Jew of former times3 one of

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those Jews that one sees in old pictures, always un-
easy, always trembling lest he be caught and handed,
and always looking for some child to strangle dur-
ing one of the sacrilegious ceremonies of his race.
There are, in a word, men who, besides the sin of our
first parents, carry the weight of one of those in-
heritances that a writer has called "a second original
sin."

To illustrate let us take the career of Lockroy, who
held a ministerial position in France.

Although the son of an Italian actor, Lockroy de-
scends from Jullien de La Drome, who played such a
sad part in the Eeyolution. He published a work
in which he gave to the world the impressions of
his grandmother. But he had the decency not to
giye more than her initials, in which he was right,
for no woman more odious than his grandmother can
be imagined. She was a woman revelling in blood ;
a woman whose eyery act was inspired by wrath and
envy : a woman who urged people to commit crime,
to massacre old men in prison and to execute inno-
cent people. In a word, she was dead to eyery gen-
erous sentiment. She was uglv and illiterate, and
she hated the unfortunate Queen, Mane Antoinette,
who was the chief ornament of Versailles. She called
the Queen another Medicis, and falsely declared that
eyen at the foot of the scaffold the Queen urged her
son not to fail to wreak vengeance for her death on
the rebellious people. She knew that she was lying
when she said this, but what of that ? It is by such
lies that the masses are urged on to murder. She

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knew that just before her death the Christian Queen,
as it can be ascertained by her will, instructed her son
as follows : " Let my son never forget the last words
of his father, which I repeat to him ; let him never
seek to avenge our death. " To the last this ances-
tress of Lockroy insulted the sublime Queen, who,
ready to die on the scaffold, employed her last mo-
ments in pardoning her enemies.

This execrable woman was desirous to enjoy to the
last the agony of her victim. The hyena wished at
least to smell the blood, since she could not drink it.

One morning in the month of October, an artist was
stationed at a window of Saint-Honore Street, pen
and paper in hand. A Jewess stood by his side
laughing coquettishly. Suddenly a light of joy illu-
mined the eyes of the w,oman. An ominous rumor
spread among the people, who clamored for their prey.
A cart appeared carrying to the scaffold her who was
the Queen of France. The Jewess stationed at the
window could not conceal her hatred even at this mo-
ment. Marie Antoinette was still more majestic than
when at Versailles. Suffering on that day from one
of those indispositions that prostrate women, weighed
down by sorrows that seemed too great for human cour-
age to bear, the unfortunate woman still found the
force to be calm even to the last hour, then fortunately
so near. The artist at the window was David; the
woman by his side was Madame Jullien.

Xothing can give us a true idea of the son of Mad-
ame Jullien, the grandmother of Lockroy. Nothing
can depict his frenzied exultation, his delight in wit-

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nessing the torture suffered by others, his worship
of the guillotine, which he called the purgative of
royalists. He was sent, when nineteen years old,
to Bordeaux to replace Tallien and Ysabeau, two
executioners whom the revolutionists considered not
energetic enough in their work, and the hyena sent to
replace them justified the wildest hopes of the public
safety. Once he declared before this body, that if
milk was the food of old men, blood was the food of
the children of liberty, a liberty resting upon a moun-
tain of dead bodies.

This man, while he killed with one hand, with the
other demanded a subsidy for the theatre in Bor-
deaux, as if he would regenerate the nation with the
vaudeville. "As I have seen the invaluable results of
vaudeville/' he said, "I have composed a light, pa-
triotic play, entitled 'The Engagements of Female
Citizens.' "

Lockroy is a scion of this family. St. Simon used
to say of Pussort, that he had the look of a dissatis-
fied cat. Lockroy, whenever he succeeds in drawing
attention to himself, has the look of a satisfied cat.
He has the cunning of a Jew, which he displayed dur-
ing the Commune. He was very uneasy in his posi-
tion in Paris. While he approved the acts of the
insurrectionary government, he feared to associate
himself with a movement he knew was destined to
fail. "To this end he profited by a circumstance,"
says Drumont, "ostensibly to take a walk in the
country, by the side of Olamart. Obliging friends
who were in the patrol seized him, and he was set at

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liberty when the Commune ended." The good peo-
ple at large really believed that Lockroy would not
have hesitated to sacrifice his life in their behalf,
and rewarded him by nominating him Minister of
Commerce.

But the great event in Lockroy's life was his intro-
duction into the family of Victor Hugo, where he
watched to the last moment, in order to prevent him
who had been so great a religious poet from returning
to the Christian faith. This whole business was ad-
mirably handled. He appealed to the old poet by the
love that he had for his grandchildren. What a dis-
grace to modern enlightenment to have permitted
this buzzard to install himself in the nest of the
eagle !

Vvliat took place at Hugo's deathbed ? It will
never be fully known. The last hours of this sover-
eign of intelligence were surrounded with as much
mystery as are those of a sovereign by divine right.

"The famous will published after the funeral does
not seem to me/" says Drumont. "to have come from
the hand of Victor Hugo."

Louis XIV. had as private secretary Toussaint Eose.
Rose's handwriting was so like the King's that he was
able to write the King's autograph letters. Literary
people know that Richard Lesclide discharged the
same functions near Victor Hugo, and that the au-
thentic autographs of the master are exceedingly rare
during the latter period of his life. Evidently Victor
Hugo could not have gotten through his prodigious
work had he been obliged to write fifty letters a

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day to announce to people that their literary produc-
tions, a perfect deluge of which filled his house, gave
him great pleasure, or that he was exceedingly in-
debted for the silly compliments that an army of emo-
tional women sent to him.

Lesclide, who was recommended to Hugo by Lock-
roy, was a Jew from Bordeaux, who guzzled during
dinner, but who withal* was not disagreeable.

Thus surrounded, Victor Hugo had hardly an op-
portunity to express a free opinion. A great number
of distinguished Frenchmen are more or less certain
of the truth of the story that he asked for a priest, and
many material facts can be established to affirm this
assertion. Vulpian was heard to say in a certain
parlor that Hugo really did ask for one. Vulpian af-
terwards, in a published communication, characterized
as a lie what he had more than once been heard to
affirm. But his letter, to use the words of a writer,
" perspires with lies and fear." It has been proved,
at any rate, that Lockroy intercepted a letter written
by the Archbishop of Paris to Victor Hugo — a letter
filled with evangelic charity, but which never reached
the poet.

What we must not fail to notice is the position as-
sumed by the Jews in these questions. Xo Gentile would
ever think anything of it if an Israelite were to ask a
Rabbi to console him during his last moments. On
the contrary, an Aryan would himself go in search of
the rabbi, and would not even hesitate to pay his cab
fare. I>ow notice how a Jew, Germain See, charac-
terizes even the possibility of such an act. u My dear

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friend/' he wrote to his accomplice, Lockroy, " if you
have read Le Monde of yesterday, you found there a
monstrosity, as it is assumed that the Master mani-
fested a desire to have a priest at his bedside."

It may well be asked what monstrosity there would
have been in a man who owed his inspiration to the
Christian religion, who celebrated Christ and the
Church in immortal verses, expressing, before quitting
the earth, a desire to speak with a minister of God.

Lockroy was still more insultinsr. The editors of
Le Monde cherished the hope that the soul of the poet
had been saved, and accordingly asked, simply and
very courteously, whether Victor Hugo did not ex-
press a desire to see a priest. " The idiots who direct
a religious paper called Le Monde/' were the words
with which Lockroy commenced his answer. Lock-
roy is always sure that he will not be brought to ac-
count for his insults before he offers them. He is one
of those who have received frequent rebuffs, and who
have always received them patiently. While still a
mere youth he finished his apprenticeship to humilia-
tion by seeing his father, in return for a mere pittance,
to amuse the populace, act the part of a buffoon on
the stage. He justifies, accordingly, what Montaigne
said in his picturesque language concerning the power
of habit. " The man seems to me to have very well
conceived the force of habit, who first of all related
the story that a country woman, having learned to
caress and to carry in her arms a young calf, by dint
of the habit finally got used to carrying it even when
the calf had grown to be an ox."
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THE ORIGINAL MR. JACOBS,

"With religious journalists Lockroy is both insult-
ing and arrogant. Among these editors there are men
who served in the Pontifical army, who have been real
heroes upon the fields of battle, the sight of whom
would suffice to make Lockroy hide under a table, but
who are restrained by order of the Church, and who,
therefore, permit this miserable man to insult them
without receiving in return what is due to him.

This hatred of the clergy is a veritable monomania
among the Jews. In the month of February, 1885,
Camille Dreyfus gave rise to a grotesque debate be-
fore the Council. He sought to proscribe the books
of Victor Hugo from the schools because the name of
God was found in the works of the poet. The munic-
ipal council actually discussed this absurd proposal
of the Jew !

Again in the month of March, 1885, it was the Jew
Lyon Allemand who denounced before the council a
professor, Pellissier, an estimable man. What was
the crime committed by the learned professor ? He
had simply used his right as an individual, his free-
dom of thought, a sacred liberty, to publish under the
title Lessons of Ancient Christianity a book replete
with noble teachings and eloquent observations, a
book that has been since crowned with praise by the
French Academy. In this book the author affirmed
and demonstrated the moral and fruitful influence of
Christianity. But the German Jew, Lyon Allemand,
was indignant at the audacity of the unhappy pro-
fessor, who was brutally discharged after twenty-five
years of service.

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275

Higher education in France will, in a few years, be
entirely in the hands of the Jews. In the schools of
" higher studies " we already find the following Jews :
Philosophy, Henry Weil ; comparative grammar, Mich-
ael Breal ; Zend language, James Darmesteter ; Sem-
itic language, Joseph Derenbourg ; Arabian language,
Hartwig Derenbourg ; Ethiopian language, Joseph
Halevy ; philology" and Assyrian antiquities, Jules
Oppert.

Let not the reader be impressed by the learning of
the Jew on account of the above imposing array.
The teaching of languages demands original research
and patient investigation. It is a well-known fact
that the Jew is not original. All his learning is
derived from the investigations of others, which he,
with effrontery, parades as his own. These positions
are held by the Jews, not because the Jews merit
them, but because they have been pushed into them
by influence/'

How many thoughts, how many recollections does
the word influence awake in our mind ! jST o matter
where our thoughts may turn, we are confronted by
that remorseless monster, influence. In our present
social organization it is seldom that merit, talent, or
education insures success. It is influence.

John D. Eockefeller, for instance, the President of
the Standard Oil Company, the man of thirty mil-
lions, illiterate though he may be, would have no diffi-
culty in appointing the man of his choice to occupy
the pulpit of his church. His influence outweighs
all other considerations. Influence bestows the degree

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THE ORIGINAL JIB. JACOBS.

of Doctor of .Divinity upon men of no scholarship,
and the influence of the Church is often prostituted to
further the interests of its favorites.

Among the Jews who direct the work of education
abroad, a place apart must be reserved for the Ger-
man Jew, Michael Breal.

This contemptible Jew has discouraged the study
of national French literature in the schools of
France, and has introduced new systems of instruc-
tion calculated to degrade the mind, and to fill it
with absurd ideas. As examples of his methods we
may mention the two most loudly advertised systems
in America, "the Natural Method of teaching lan-
guages," and " the Meisterschaft system/" the latter
introduced here by the Jew, Eosenthal. People are
expected to spend three years of apprenticeship be-
fore they become proficient in a trade, yet in a circu-
lar now before us we read that there exists a certain
School of Languages in New York, directed by a Jew,
where one can acquire a thorough knowledge of the
German language in about forty lessons. Shades of
Goethe defend us ! These systems, advertised with
so much effrontery, are not calculated to flatter the
intelligence of native Americans, for it would seem
that dupes are not wanting who suffer themselves to
be gulled by these empty promises.

Owing to the peculiar methods of teaching advo-
cated by the Jew, Michael Breal, the brains of chil-
dren, confused by a thousand heterogeneous notions,
become incapable of serious effort.

Eminent men of the old school bitterly complain of

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this lamentable decadence. A roan who best of all
understands the question of teaching, Mr. Albert
Duruy, published upon this subject a remarkable
work, showing the harm- accomplished by trying to
impart to the youth an education contrary to national
genius and to methods heretofore adopted.

"In this struggle/"' he remarks, "it is no longer
simply a question of ancient or modern literature, but
it is the fact that national genius is getting tarnished.
It is our children whose talents are stifled, it is our
stricken country which they seek to ruin by foolish
methods of foreign culture, methods propagated and
encouraged bv the Jews.

"To all their other faults they add that of being
antipathetic to our race. They are not born in our
land. They have been conceived beyond the Rhine/'

It is the Jew, Camille See, who seeks in schools for
girls to exclude all religious teaching. It is the Jew
who discourages trade schools, where women formerly
were taught an honest trade that enabled them to earn
their living.

Frenchmen who are little zealous in their faith
say to these Jews : " You. intend to give to these
young girls what you call a refined education,
an education superior to their position in the world.
You seek to teach them music, painting, etc. Still,
you know how difficult it is for them to gain a living
with an education of this sort. Placed between dis-
honor and poverty, which will be harder for them to
bear than for others of less education, these girls, who
belong mostly to the middle classes, who are the girls

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of old soldiers, will be surrounded by many tempta-
tions. Why not give them a practical education, im-
bue their hearts with a belief that will sustain them
in life, a belief which consoles, elevates and which
often saves ? "

But the Jew smiles with a meaning smile. He
often after a convivial dinner lets his private thoughts
escape. To the rich Jew banker, to the parvenu of
yesterday, to the Jew who has simply a light coat of
civilization, there is need of young girls. There
is need of " Klipoth " — girls not Jewesses — to con-
sole, to amuse these beings attacked with neurosis
and hypochondria, just as David appeased with
his harp the melancholy of Saul. In the news-
paper, IS Echo, of Paris, an old soldier wrote an
article stating that out of 50,000 girls who presented
themselves at the teacher's examination with a view
of obtaining a situation to teach, only 3,000 were ac-
cepted. He traced the following brutal, but alas too
true picture of these unfortunate girls :

" Like famished wolves upon a stray traveller these
women rush to the assault of promised places. Last
year 3,000 places were filled. Perhaps the reader may
say that this is a large number, but the demand was
for 50,000. What will the 47,000 teachers do who are
without employment and without hope of obtaining
any ? Where will they be found ? "

We know that it is useless to look for them in
the workshop or in the store. They will not stoop to
this, but if we search well, we shall find them in
the society of young journalists without a journal, of

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 279

lawyers without a case. In fact, in the society of
men who try to live by their wits. It is also in the
smoke of beer saloons that we shall find their ironi-
cal and scoffing silhouettes. Amid the noise of beer
glasses and glasses of absinthe, we shall hear these
useless products of normal schools railing against
society.

Paris is thoroughly poisoned by these women. TVe
meet these young Bohemians in petticoats at every-
step, wearing short hair, a masculine collar, and
withal the unmistakable air of a dissatisfied "school-
marm." They often correct the letters in which work-
ing women beg for the money that is due them from
their heartless Jewish employers, or write love letters
for their grossly ignorant associates, the girls of the
Boulevards.

To establish their superiority, they have certain
ways of their own, different from these of the every-
day grisette, and by which ways they contribute to
the propagation and the. development of that Lesbian
worship before whose altars we see such vast num-
bers kneeling.

We may find them also in those spacious establish-
ments, the restaurants, especially those kept in Paris,
by Duval, which some one defined "The Soup
Houses of Love."

To pervert the young is the one essential point, the
main point to which the Jew's efforts are directed.
It is a Jew who published at the publishing house
of the Jew, Leopold Cerf, a book entitled Practical
Manual of School Laiv. He finds the question ex-

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ceedingly promising to the Jews. He explains the
duties of this question with complacency, and threat-
ens those who would hesitate to obey. "Public
schools," he writes. " being amenable to our law, in
fact, public schools being absolutely laical, it follows
that in schools no religious emblem whatsoever ought
to figure."

A religious newspaper once called attention to the
pitiful condition of public schools in France, the
pupils of which are brought up with atheistic tenden-
cies, as no religious instruction is encouraged, and no
notions of the Deity are instilled into the young
minds. The mere mention of the word God, by any
of the teachers, is a sufficient ground for his immedi-
ate discharge.

Gentile teachers find it difficult to secure employ-
ment, while a Jew is given preference, even if de-
ficient in scholarship.*

The Jewish newspaper La Lanterne, in an article
so filthy that we abstain from reproducing it here,
lost no time in denouncing the editor of the religious
paper as a blackleg, a bandit, etc.

It is the part of Jew editors to wilfully degrade the
profession of journalism. They give way knowingly
to the lowest instincts of animal life. They are reck-
less of private character, and are promoters of private
scandal. They neither regard truth, nor respect pub-
lic opinion.

* We know of a teacher of languages, by the " Natural
Method," here in New York, who formerly was a tailor in Arn-
heim's tailor shop.

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If Anthony Comstock, instead of making himself
ridiculous by his interference in Mr. Knoedler's busi-
ness, instead of treading upon the sacred domains of
art, of which he is entirely ignorant, would try to
bring to justice the Jew editors that disgrace public
morals by their filthy articles, he would be applauded
by the entire Christian community, and would win
public esteem instead of censure and ridicule.

Everywhere, we repeat it, the Jew is untiring in his
work of infamy, in his incessant attacks against the
Christian religion and its ministers. Take, for in-
stance, the episode of the second expulsion of the
Benedictine priests, an expulsion which was of a char-
acter particularly revolting.

These poor priests, after they had been expelled
from their places, little by little sought to return to
them. They were known to have no resources what-
soever. They would not live outside of their monas-
tery, where they had passed their lives, where their
library was, and where they had acquired those habits
of industrious labor, which, as everybody knows, have
been so fruitful in results.

Among the most violent radicals, the majority
knowing the facts kept silent, saying that the repre-
sentative men of this order were those who had saved
civilization during the Middle Ages by collecting in
their cells the masterpieces of the human mind. But
the Jewish newspaper, Le Paris, instituted a veritable
campaign of blackmail against these monks, who joined
science to faith, the love of God to the love of letters.

The Aryan is incapable of acts of this nature.

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Were the Jews again banished from Europe, and were
the Aryans to know that the rabbis would a sain unite,
in order to myauder, the Aryan wTould not denounce
them. My Glider means to unite, in order to study
the Talmud doctrine, called Eulacca. According to
the Talmud, God, after quitting the Temple, reserved
in Heaven a certain place where he My etude a part
of the clay. In Yeschuot we are told: "The day
has twelve hours. During the first three God myaude ;
during the second quarter, God is seated and judges
the world. But seeing that the entire world is guilty,
he rises from his seat of justice and sits upon the seat
of pity. During the third quarter of the day, God is
seated and nourishes the entire world from the rhi-
noceros to the bugs. During the fourth quarter, God
is seated and plavs with Leviathan. As it is also said
in the Psalms, " Leviathan, whom Thou hast created
in order to play with him."

This transmission through heredity of religious
hatred, of irresistible impulse, of fatality and of anti-
social instincts, is one of the most striking spectacles
of our epoch. "Without attributing to heredity the
fatal character that modern science attributes to it, it
must be admitted that it plays an important part in
the constitution of man. We meet, in fact, veritable
diabolical predestinations.

As we write the above we involuntarily recall the
account of the old Byzantine writer given in the
early pages of this book, and many a prominent
figure in our financial affairs is brought to our
mind.

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283

Has ever a man of observation asked himself the
question : " Is there any Jewish blood in the veins of
John D. Rockefeller ? " We do not hesitate to af-
firm from an intimate knowledge of the man, that if
Rockefeller is not actually a Jew, he has many Jew-
ish traits. True, he is a prominent member of the
Baptist Church, but in the actual pursuits of ambi-
tion, of interest, of pleasure, and even in the common
occupations and intercourse of ordinary life, Scriptu-
ral precepts appear in his case to be left for Sunday.

We confess that we feel powerless to adequately
describe the mysterious, secret, insinuating air that
he possesses. When he walks, his step is as light as
that of a cat. He glides along as if he were afraid to
loot his fellow man in the face. He casts mysterious
side glances, as if in dread of some lurking enemy.
He is about fifty years old, rather tall, but, owing to
his habit of constantly looking upon the ground, and
of casting side glances, his form is prematurely stoop-
ing. He looks as if he were a victim to dyspepsia.
Keither his head, forehead, eyes, nor any feature of
his indicates peculiar talent, or even a higher degree
of intelligence than is possessed by the ordinary mor-
tal. His face seldom lights up with a kindly sentiment.
He never loses his temper. He seems to be afraid of
the sound of his own voice. When compelled to
speak, he articulates his words slowly, one by one,
as if loath to part with them.

He has an elongated face, which, owing to the shape
of his mouth, his prominent nose and sensual lips,
resembles strikingly the pictures of the old interlopers,

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those Jews who in years past established themselves
in Bordeaux under the name of new Christians.

If, however, the face of John Eockefeller seldom
lights up with a human feeling, still we must make
an exception in the case of his eyes, in which jealousy,
obduracy, anxiety are by turns manifested.

Like men of little or no education, like the par-
yenu of yesterday, Eockefeller is fond of yulgar os-
tentation. Before he bought the house on Fifty-
fourth Street, !New York, he liyecl for years in the
Buckingham Hotel. His family consists of three
daughters and one son, the latter also called John,
after his father, whom he strikingly resembles.

Eockefeller is abstemious. In this he differs from
his brother "William, who has a box at the opera-, en-
tertains, and who, when a guest at dinner, does not
turn his wineglass upside down, in order to make a
parade of his abstemiousness. John has not a box at
the opera, neyer goes to the theatre, nor does he allow
any member of his family to do so. We doubt whether
any one of his children eyer saw the inside of a place
of amusement, unless perhaps it was a church fair or
festival.

Here we have one who only a few years ago was,
comparatively speaking, a poor man, for he started
in life by borrowing a few hundred dollars ; a man who
within the recollection of many who know him, was
engaged in the modest business of a dealer in coal and
wood, gaining within a short time a fortune counted
by the millions. Has "heredity" anything to do
with it ? If not, how has he come to this wealth?

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It is well known that he does not possess extraordi-
nary ability. On the other hand,, the spirit of the
Standard Oil Company is simply the spirit of monop-
oly, of cruelty, of annihilation of all competitors, a
spirit in fact such as manifests itself in the scandal-
ous enterprises of the Jews.

Speaking of the character and wealth of such a man
as Kockefeller, the reader may ask, do the same re-
marks apply to the other millionaires, such as the
Vanderbilts and Jay Gould ?

The Vanderbilts are no more to be compared with
John D. Kockefeller than is the generous, open, un-
suspecting nature of the average American to be com-
pared to the close, calculating nature of the average
Jew.

The Vanderbilts are, above all, Aryans — Aryans in
every sense of the word — with an Aryan's faults, per-
haps, but still they are Aryans. They have generous
impulses, they have acquired their wealth honestly, they
have never been known to wrong any man, and they
are esteemed in the community in which they dwell.
In the Vanderbilt household we find the true Chris-
tian development exemplified in a high degree. From
the time of the sturdy old Commodore to the pres-
ent day, we have the true succession of that Christian
gradation that is so common in our American history.
The Vanderbilts spend their wealth lavishly — not
ostentatiously. They are patrons of art, they are gen-
erous and patriotic. They have the true spirit of
Americans, and were this country ever to become
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spend their last dollar in its defence. In brief, they
are not Jews.

Jay Gould cannot be included in any existing hu-
man category. He is neither a Jew nor an Aryan.
He is the special phenomenon of the nineteenth cen-
tury. The different elements that the observer meets
in describing Gould are many and complex in the
extreme.

Gould possesses the apathy of a Turk, the cruelty
of a Zulu, the cunning of a Greek, the changeableness
of a Frenchman, the stability of a German, the insin-
cerity of an Armenian, the deceitfulness of a Jew. the
treachery of an Indian, the greed of an Englishman,
the enterprise and smartness of an American.

We have for a long time studied and analyzed that
extraordinary freak of the nineteenth century, and we
shall in a future work present him, properly dissected,
to the lio'ht of dav.

Much more might be said in regard to the Jewish
traits of prominent men of the present day who are
not recognized Jews. Is it, however, so certain that
in the long line of their descent some stream of Hebrew
taint has not, perhaps in the remote past, defiled what
would otherwise be a pure Aryan type ? The tree
must be judged by its fruit. It is an interesting ques-
tion, but the scope of our book does not permit us to
discuss it further.

To return then to the subject of i( heredity. 99

In 1T90 the Marquis of Eochefort. after losing his
property, became a Revolutionist, and planted in the
yard of his chateau the first tree of liberty ever seen

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 287

in Bourgogne. The tree was blessed by the priest
Pyat. The Marquis was the grandfather of Henri
Eochefort, the editor of the Intrensigent, known
throughout the world for his Communistic doctrines
and hatred of aristocracy. As for the priest Pyat, he
married a sister of charity, by whom he had two sons,
the younger of whom was Felix. It is certainly strange
to find the names of Pyat and Eochefort so prominent
during the last Commune.

Can the son of a convict be a saint ? The Church
says yes, but the sociologist, while accepting this
affirmation, is obliged to acknowledge that in order to
remain in the path of virtue, greater efforts must be
put forth by him than by others. If the son of a con-
vict receives an education, we generally find him shield-
ing his wicked designs against society behind certain
high-sounding phrases in which progress, emancipa-
tion and liberty are prominent. He will lean upon a
collectivity, composed of the ignorant among the
masses, but withal he will remain the son of a convict.
Parents have children who, while outwardly they may
not resemble them, still bear the resemblance in the
depths of their hearts.

Take, for instance, the Jew Challemal-Lacour, an
ex-magistrate of France. His life is a human docu-
ment of considerable importance. One of his ances-
tors, Armand Fidele Lacour, a grocer, was declared,
on the 12th of May, 1838, by the Court, a fraudulent
bankrupt, and the Court ordered a watch to be kept
upon him. The grandfather and the grand uncle
of the ex-magistrate were condemned for forgery, the

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first to twenty years', and the latter to six years',
imprisonment at hard labor. The great-grand-
father was, in like manner condemned to prison for
fraudulent acts, and the son of the grandfather
was imprisoned for committing acts of a criminal
nature.

If the ex-magistrate had received no education, he
would, no doubt, have been engaged in acts of the
same nature. But his education acted simply as a
light coat of yarnish, for it did not succeed in chang-
ing his original perverted temperament. His culture
only enabled him to do evil to the great majority,
while apparently honestly occupied in furthering the
interests of his dupes.

To these means of warfare, to these means of attack
against the Church and the clergy, the Jew has called
to his assistance not only his blackmailing press, but
also obscene publications, in a word, pornography.

According to the Talmud, it is a good omen to dream
of filth. Nearly all obscene publications are the work
of the J ews.

In all matters pertaining to corruption and pollution,
in matters that defile moral character, the Jew stands
unequalled.

The hog is the emblem of the Jew of the Jew who
is not ashamed to wallow in corruption, baseness, ig-
nominy and usury in order to increase his capital, and
who does not find any speculation too infamous when
there is a profit to be derived from it.

Heredity appears also among the Jews in a some-
what imperious and peculiar character. That foul

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289

place called the Ghetto, that proverbial place of filth,
where the Jew has lived for centuries, has impreg-
nated his whole system. The Jew manifests that
form of disease called pica, which makes the patient
crave what is unfit for food, as is evident from the
incredible torrent of scurrilous publications that have
inundated the world during the last ten years.

The Jews have established in France the indecencies
formerly practised in the orgies of Bacchus, without,
however, the artistic side that was prominent at Eome
and Athens. They exhibit their phallic publications
throughout Paris. Croissant Street is a veritable Jew-
ish sink, the market of pornographic newspapers,
where the Israelite shops in close array fight among
themselves as to which shall exhibit the most loath-
some pictures.

The historian of the future who shall attempt to
describe the catalogue of the filthy publications
issued by the Jews during the last ten years will
scarcely believe the evidence of his own eyes. Scenes
of gross debauchery, representing drunken monks in
the society of girls, priests lashing nude women, filthy
groups, and other outrageous pictures, are displayed
on all sides, with Jewish effrontery, in the windows
and stores,

Formerly fathers of families, men of the people,
would have made life burdensome for those who toler-
ate and encourage such turpitudes. To-day, however,
we see in the populous quarters fathers, mothers, little
girls and boys gazing upon these obscene publications.
To this condition have the Jews reduced France.
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Ingotus, with his peculiar gift of seeing and repro-
ducing the sights of a street, has traced the following
heart-rending picture : " In these quarters of the
Jews most of the women are in dishevelled hair. Be-
fore every obscene picture stand groups of men, women
and little girls. . . . The most sacred attributes
of religion are turned by the Jews into ridicule. I
have heard and noted down the following reflections
of this idle group :

" ' Hello, look at this bishop ! ' It is a caricature of
Monseigneur Freppel. . . . An urchin says to
his young companion, ' Gosh, see that little dog spitting
into the communion cup !' . . . Excepting three or
four vulgar expressions, I have noticed nothing inde-
cent in the thoughts expressed by this group. The
public seemed only astonished at the pictures exposed.
Another urchin said, ' Look at this monk who goes
into that house pretending to do so in order to ask
for alms. . . . Notice down there the husband
who watches him through a hole.'

"The greatest success was a lithograph of fast
colors. It represented a band of convicts, dressed in
clerical garments, and upon the back of each convict
was written in bold letters the reason for which he
had been condemned. These reasons are of so obscene
a character that we dare not reproduce them here.
This lithograph attracts the greatest attention."

The Jews have a great advantage on their side. It
is the honesty of their adversaries, which prevents them
from paying them back in their own coin. Suppose
that a Gentile should take it into his head to pub-

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 291

lish some unpleasant reflection on a well-known Jew-
ish society belle. Imagine how severely the Christian
clergy would reprimand an action of this kind, and
how the writer would be despised by his friends and
associates. The last of the Aryans would say to him.
" Don't do that ; don't degrade a woman ; docL't attack
the weaker sex." The editors of La Lanterns have
not these scruples. They published tranquilly that a
sister of charity, the Sister St. Charles, was delivered
of a child in the train of Aix. They did not mind the
fine of a few hundred francs which they were con-
demned to pay. Incredible though it may seem, the
presiding judge opposed any payment of personal
damages, and this is the logic of that representative of
public morality :

"It is useless to grant personal damages. There
has been, no doubt, defamation of character, but Sis-
ter St. Charles is a respectable person and well known
to be so. Hence the prejudice is so much the less,
as the person suffering thereby is more respected and
better known. " According to this logic, the court
made little account of the reputation of Madame
Hugues, who, in 1885, was granted, as personal dam-
ages, two thousand francs, while the same court con-
demned the editors of La Lanterne to five hundred
francs in the case of Sister St. Charles. One can see
in all this only the servility of the magistrates to the
Jews. In the same manner one who would discuss the
morality of Johann Most would be more guilty than
he who would drag St. Vincent de Paul into the
mire.

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What has been said of Sister St. Charles may
be applied to all similar slanders fabricated by the
Jews.

Suppose that a Jew is unfortunate in his domestic
life. Feeling himself about to die, he takes from the
woman who has deceived him the care of his son, and
begs his own mother, whom he venerates, to raise the
child in the path of virtue. A rabbi goes to console
the man and to bring to him the hope of a better
life. Do you suppose that any respectable Catholic
or Protestant sheet would discuss this private drama,
attack the grandmother, or insult the rabbi ? No.
See, on the contrary, what the Jewish press Le Paris,
of the Jew Beil Picard ; La Lanterne, of the Jew
Mayer ; Le Voltaire, of the Jews Lafitte and Strauss,
make out of any scandal, true or false, out of every
murmur affecting the fair name of a respectable Aryan
family. They drag it into the mire where they them-
selves wallow ; they feel happy to see somebody else
stained with their filth.

"I am perfectly convinced," says Drumont, "that
if there were founded an anti-Jewish publication, at
the end of a year the Jew^s would entirely change
tune, and would cease their issue of scandals. 'Like
cures like/ The Jews revel in filth. Give them
plenty of it and they will leave the Aryan alone."

It is not our intention to enumerate all the vile ut-
terances of the Jewish press, to recall all the wanton
insults they heap upon the Gentile. If you read the
European Jewish press you will find that the most beau-
tiful, the most touching ceremonies of Christian wor-

DEGENERATION OF TEE JEWS. 293

ship, are occasions of blasphemy. Christian proces-
sions are called clerical masquerades, etc.

These are the pariahs, the slaves, the outcasts of a
few centuries ago who to-day so arrogantly parade
their triumph.

What is most remarkable in all this is the total ab-
sence of originality.

Take the Jewish newspapers, and you will fail to
find there a new idea, an unpublished infamy. It is
the Talmud poured into the press. It is Hebraic
blasphemy translated into slang. There again the
poverty of Jewish imagination makes itself manifest ;
for, for the Jewish press, as well as for the Talmud,
preaching is barking, Ndbudb; the saints are liber-
tines, Kedescliim; the women saints are prostitutes,
Kedescliot; the churches are places of prostitution,
Betmoscluib or Bethyce; the crosses are abominations ;
Toeba; holy water is dirty water, Mayim temeim ;
blessing is malediction, Kelala ; sacrament is an im-
pure sacrifice, Zabut temi.

To all these forms of attack we must add the terri-
ble persecution that takes place from the highest to
the lowest step of the social ladder, now that the Jews
have driven honest people from all important positions.

Where does all this persecution begin, and where
does it end ? It is impossible to say. It is of every-
day occurrence. It has been proclaimed in a thou-
sand different manners. This persecution assumes all
disguises, it denounces, calumniates, lays traps, organ-
izes scandals, and casts a stigma upon the names of
those against whom a sufficient number of witnesses

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cannot be bribed to bear false testimony. This perse-
cution drives some to madness, others to suicide, and
as soon as one tries to smother it, to seize it, it slips,
it vanishes, it eludes one's grasp.

Throughout the world those who disgrace the pro-
fession of law, those who are ready to espouse any
side for pay, those who have monopolized the lowest
and dirtiest practice of the lawyer's profession, and
who have acquired that narrow and confined mode of
thinking that a liberal mind would so greatly despise
as to be unable to acquire it, are all Jews. Lawyers
of infamous character, blasted with imputations of
the most atrocious kinds, in the walks of private and
domestic life, are Jews.

There is no order in the community more con-
temptible than that of those Jew practitioners of the
law, who, without one liberal principle of justice or of
equity, possess skill in little else than quibbles, and are
strong in those points only by which villainy is taught
to proceed with impunity, cunning enabled to elude
legal enactments, and truth perplexed, obscured, and
lost in the mazes of chicanery.

Should such men preside as judges where life and
death, liberty and property are at stake ? What jus-
tice, for instance, can a Gentile obtain if he has a
case against a Jew, and the case is tried before a
Jew judge ! See the Talmud. "If a Christian and
an Israelite come before you to decide any difference
whatsoever, see that the Israelite wins the case. . . .
If you cannot openly do so, have the Israelite win the
case in any way, through craft and deceit."

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What security, we repeat, can a person have if ju-
dicial positions fall into the hands of Jews ? Our
country would be thrust into a darkness as dark as
Home's in her decadence.

Working-men, never cease, with your yotes and your
influence, to oppose the Jew — the Jew who has no
character, who is steeped in libertinism, in infidelity,
in every kind of profligacy which tends to harden the
heart and to deaden the feelings of humanity — no
less than to stifle the sentiments of true honor. Do
not listen to them, workingmen, when they preach to
you the German doctrines of socialism, which are
those of the German Jew, Karl Marx. The Jew was
not, is not, and never will be your friend. Do not
let him deceive you. The strike is a system of war-
fare that belongs to the Jew. The strike is the out-
come of the preaching of Karl Marx; it is an idea pe-
culiarly Jewish, an idea of death. It is the death of
work under pretext of a struggle against the capitalist.
We repeat it to you, workingmen, the strike comes of
the teachings of the German Jew, a thing fostered
by anarchists, by violators of law, by men who seek
to use you as instruments of their private designs ; in
a word, by the Jews.

Workingmen, if you suffer evils, enlighten your-
selves with regard to the nature and the origin of these
evils before you surrender yourselves, body and soul,
to socialism. Trust not the foreigner who whispers
in your ears un-American doctrines, and, above all,
do not trust the Jew. It is he who has invented, in
order to seduce you, aggressive and insolent liberalism.

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One cannot compass anything by this course, unless it
be to proyoke disorders and mutual resistance, eYils
which stop production, kill the industries of the coun-
try and ruin its prosperity.

Workingnien, as soon as you study the manoeuvres
of the Jew? you will declare him a criminal. His
work among you is revolution and disorder. His pre-
tended love for you is the Jove of the fox for the
geese. He is like the swimmer who makes a great
ado in the water, but makes no headway. The Jew
is a false brother. He is constantly occupied in con-
cealing his designs, the designs of the socialist and
the enemy of good order. The hatred of the Jew
for the Gentile is a historic fact which the Jew writers
themselves are unable to deny. Formerly they bought
Gentile prisoners from the Eomans solely to torment
them and to put them to death. Do not be deceived
by smiles, for the smiles of the fiend are dangerous.

Workingmen, you, like us, come from generations
that have lived in this country. Our ancestors fash-
ioned our heritage, successively improved it, aggran-
dized it in honor and dignity. They have given us a
history in accordance with our character, our hopes,
our ambitions. These ancestors are our own, our
dead, jnst as the fallen leaves of autumn are the an-
cestors, so to speak, of the leaves of the following
spring. The Jew can have no love for this country
of vours, for it is not his.

To preserve the honor and dignity of this country,
workingmen, to keep its reputation untarnished, is a
duty which you must discharge with the same watch-

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 297

ful care as that with which yon would protect the
lives and the honor of your wives and daughters. No
one of you would allow his daughter or wife to asso-
ciate with libertines, with men of low and bad charac-
ter. How much more earnest and watchful you ought
to be of your country ! This country cannot toler-
ate the Jew. She sees him sowing poison everywhere,
and she implores you to defend her against the Jew
before it is too late.

The men who made both France and Spain so great
in the past were neither malefactors nor imbeciles. The
measures they adopted against the Jews were not the
whims of tyrants, but were forced upon them by exist-
ing perils. The workingmen of old refused to endure
the oppression of the Semite, refused to listen to his
anarchical doctrines, and were unanimous in boycotting
everything sold by a Jew. They knew that the furni-
ture, for instance, the Jew sold was of poor work-
manship ; they knew that the provisions he sold were
of bad quality and that he gave false weight. They
knew that to secure their own advancement it was
necessary to transact no business with the Jews. An
association of individuals thinking alike, a commu-
nity representing certain sentiments, beliefs, aspi-
rations, aptitudes and traditions, defended itself prop-
erly against a race that represented sentiments, be-
liefs, aspirations, aptitudes and traditions absolutely
hostile to its own.

The faith of Abraham definitely puts the Jew beyond
our law, because the law that the Jews obey in their
homes is the negation of ours. The Jew has never done

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anything that entitles him to be called "the chosen."
If our space permitted us to analyze the characters of
many of their most prominent men, we should have
no difficulty in showing that the best among them
were imitators and arrant plagiarists. The strength
of the Jew is the strength of the weak — deceitfulness.
In the past he was a sorcerer, because as a sorcerer he
had no difficulty in deceiving the people. Some peo-
ple claim that the destiny of the Jew is sad and hu-
miliating, and that consequently he is entitled to our
sympathy. Sympathy bestowed upon a Jew is mis-
placed sympathy.

One does not pity the criminal who does not wish to
be pitied. If the Jew is without the pale of law, it is
his own fault. He does not change his course. He
asserts that he wishes to follow our lawrs, yet he ad-
heres to his own. Can he ever conform to our usages
and really obey our laws ? He does not work, he does
not produce, he lives by exploitation and dishonest
transactions. He proclaims himself a cosmopolitan, a
layman, and employs against us violence and exac-
tion, which are the essence of his law — a religious
law. He seeks to share the advantages and comforts
of our homes, while he aims to deprive us of them.
He says he is hungry ; we give him free access to our
tables, wrhile he moves Heaven and earth to deprive
us of our daily bread. He is cold, and asks an
asylum in our house ; he enters, and it is not long
before the house is his. He proposes to engage in
commercial affairs with us, that he may sell us trash
or stolen goods.

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299

The Jew reminds us of the words of Mirabeau :
" There are only two kinds of men, those who work
and those who do not work ; those who earn their
living and those who steal."

The Jew does not earn his living, he does not pro-
duce. He thrives only through usury and exploita-
tion. His life is a continued plot ; he is a thief.

In a word, hypocrisy and lying are the salient feat-
ures in the Jew,

"Send your children to the public schools/' said
Cremieux to his co-religionists, " but be sure and bring
them up at home in the law of Moses. "

If the Jew is not engaged in blackmailing the rich,
the aristocrat, he plots to keep down the poor. The
children of the poor whose lives promise to be the
hardest, and who most of all need a hope, an ideal,
are deprived of all religious teaching in the public
schools. Reared without a God, living without a God,
they will die without a God.

The Jews passed a law in France ordering the expul-
sion of Sisters of Charity from the hospitals. The
demand for nursing is one of the demands of civiliza-
tion. Formerly when a poor man, a young man, or a
stranger in Paris fell sick, he found near his bedside
a sister of charity, a being of goodness, who consoled
and took care of him. He found a nurse intelligent
and full of resources, tender in touch, a kind of mother
when the natural mother was not available. But the
Jews expelled the sister of charity, the poor man's
nurse, from his bedside. The Jews placed there
instead the paid nurse — coarse in manners and in

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touch, ignorant and superstitious, vulgar and intem-
perate in habits, rough in speech, git en often to heavy
and perhaps drunken sleep at those critical hours of
the night when fever, delirium and pain do their worst,
and the patient needs a watchful friend.

This persecution of the poor man is the crime of
crimes among the criminal deeds of the Jews, for by
the expulsion of the sisters they have made the
hospitals in France a veritable hell, over which may
be written the wTords of Dante,. " Abandon ye all
hope. "

The paid nurses who have replaced the sisters of
charity in the hospitals claim a gratuity from the poor
for the slightest service they render, and extend the
hand not to assist, but to receive monev. It is no
exaggeration to say that the Jew's paid nurses have
brought the hospitals abroad into disgrace.

The newspaper Le Franpais published lately the fol-
lowing :

"Yesterday, Friday, the court had before it a case
of unparalleled debauchery in which a hospital nurse,
one of the new kind that has replaced the sisters of
charity, figured. The judge said to her, 'You area
nurse in the hospital of St. Louis, and you pass your
nights in beer saloons/ . . . The indignation of
those present wras apparent by their suppressed mur-
murs. "

These paid nurses constantly figure in the tribu-
nals of Paris. "What care must the poor patients re-
ceive at the hands of women who pass their nights
among rumsellers !

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In the month of April, 1884, two paid nurses were
condemned to two months' imprisonment for having
almost killed a patient who sought to prevent them
from stealing wine.

The newspaper Le Cri du Peuple, of November 5,
1884, gives a heart-rending account of the scenes en-
acted in a lunatic asylum at Bicetre where a well-
known atheist, a man of many offices — for he is at
once a deputy, an editor, and a head doctor — directs
the establishment.

The nurses consider it a pastime to strike the unfort-
unate inmates with their fists and with heavy bunches
of keys. When in good humor they garrote the
patients, or give them to the bather, who plunges them
into a cold bath, and holds their heads under water
until the face becomes purple.

vVe mention these facts because it is the Jews who
brought about the expulsion of the sisters of charity
from the hospitals, and because the greater part of the
nurses throughout the charitable institutions of France
are of the faith of the Jews.

In the month of January, 1885, a paralytic who
occupied bed Xo. 19 in the ward of St. Frangois, in
the hospital Beauyou, was dragged from his bed by a
drunken nurse and thrown into the cellar, where he
expired a few minutes later.

In 1884 the following touching petition was sent to
President Grevy, signed by twelve hundred patients of
the hospital situated at Ivry-Sur-Seine :

"ilost of us," said these poor people, "have lived
for a long time in the hospitals from which the sis-

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ters of charity have been expelled. This is saying,
Mr. President, that we have ourselves experienced the
results of the change, and we affirm that by losing the
sisters we lost at the same time the repose, the quiet,
and, wTe must acknowledge it, alas ! the care that is so
necessary to lis, and the kindness that is due us. It is
not only we, Mr. President, that appeal to you to rein-
state the sisters of charity. The inmates of two other
institutions have already sent to you a petition of the
same sort."

At the meeting of January 28, 1885, the municipal
council discussed the question of reinstating the sisters,
whereupon a member offered to read an ignoble and
slanderous letter against the sisters. Upon being re-
quested by the assembly to state who was the author
of the letter, he at. first refused, but was finally obliged
to confess that it was written by a Jew named David.

As we have stated, the greater part of these hospi-
tal attendants are Jews, who seem to this day not to
forget the advice given to them in the year 1489 by
the rabbis of Constantinople :

"Make your children physicians and apothecaries
in order that they may be enabled to poison and kill
the Gentiles without fear of either detection or pun-
ishment."

On the 26th of June, 1882, a poor lunatic was
literally boiled to death in her bath, where a Jewess
nurse shut her in, and afterwards claimed to have for-
gotten her. At the hospital Tenon, a patient, Mile.
Devillers, expired amid excruciating pains through
the mistake of a nurse in not giving her the proper

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medicine. A child was burned alive in this same
hospital in June, 1883. At the hospital Allener an-
other nurse caused the death of a child two months
old by giving it the wrong medicine. In the month
of July, 1885, two patients of the hospital of St.
Louis, named Charles Vandeleyem and Charles Le-
couteux, died a frightful death, for instead of two
spoonfuls of brandy as ordered by the doctor, two table-
spoonfuls of strychnine were administered to them.

These crimes are so common since the Jews caused
the law to be passed expelling the sisters from the
hospitals, that people no longer pay attention to
them. A physician lately published an article in
which he expresses his astonishment that his prescrip-
tions are administered in a manner exactly opposed to
his orders. To a patient for whom he had prescribed
wine, milk was given. Upon the physician demand-
ing an explanation, the manager of the hospital asked
the doctor to diminish hereafter the quantity of wine
prescribed, alleging as an excuse that the finaDcial
condition of the establishment did not warrant high-
priced medicines. Behold the condition to which the
Jews have reduced the hospitals, which have a subsidy
of 34,000,000 of francs. Where does this money go
to ? The Jews have the direction in their hands.
Theft is everywhere. One fine morning it was discov-
ered that the quinine no longer produced any effect,
and upon being analyzed it was found that instead of
quinine the Jew director of the hospital had bought
a large amount of spurious quinine, manufactured by
a Jew establishment in Germany.

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The reader may now well understand the horror
with which poor men throughout France look upon
the hospitals in which formerly they so blindly trusted.
During the cholera the poor dared not confess that
they were sick from fear of being surrendered to the
tender mercies of these paid hospital nurses, and
asked of the physicians as a favor not to betray them.
Lately a nurse, who, with the assistance of the po-
lice, sought to take away a sick man, was almost killed
by the people of the neighborhood.

A physician who attended two patients was obliged
to report to the authorities that one of his patients, a
woman, was suffering from cholera. The poor woman,
upon being informed that she was going to be carried
to the hospital, begged of her husband not to allow her
to be taken there, and both of them, the woman
stricken with cholera, and the man almost out of his
senses with sorrow, set out in the dead of ni^ht and
went aimlessly about the streets of Paris, wandering
like the beast that seeks a corner to die in. When
they were discovered and were taken to the hospital,
the woman, as soon as she entered the building, fell
dead.

Figures speak more eloquently than words. In April,
1884, a circular was printed proclaiming in the most
energetic manner the scandalous waste that rules to-
day in all hospitals where half-intoxicated women
have replaced the sisters, and where the ignorant
nurses are unable to distinguish one medicine from the
other. From the figures given, we learn that while
formerly, when the sisters were in control, sixteen thou-

DEGENERATION OF THE JEWS. 305

sand litres of brandy were used, to-day the consump-
tion is forty thousand litres. Formerly five thousand
litres of rum were used, now thirty-two thousand.
Formerly one hundred and forty-four kilogrammes of
sugar, now two hundred thousand. Formerly 1,893,-
000 litres of wine, now 2,646,000 litres.

In the hospitals there is neither control nor disci-
pline. The newspaper Le National is obliged to ac-
knowledge that decayed meat is distributed to the
patients, and that while formerly the attendants were
devoted and humane, to-day they are cruel and remiss
in their duty.

Dr. Chalvan, ou the 22d of December, 1884, wrote:
. . . " The evil that has been inflicted upon the
hospitals is even greater than I care to say. Order and
morality have been banished from our hospitals ever
since the sisters were expelled. Eecently at one of the
hospitals the women and the men among the attend-
ants exchanged clothes, and in this disguise they ap-
peared before the patients.

One great difference always exists between the sisters
and the paid nurses. The former do not embrace the
profession of nurse as a means of subsistence. The
reason for their choice is of a more sublime character.
The latter, however, adopt this vocation which often
they despise because they are compelled to do so ; be-
cause they cannot find anything better. ... In
working for an idea, even if it be false, there is always
something nobler than in working for a living. In
the army, the volunteers are always preferred to the
paid substitutes.
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Could anything be more revolting, time and place
considered, than the masquerade mentioned by the
doctor ?

Imagine these male and female nurses, half dressed,
playing hide and seek in hospital wards filled with
suffering humanity ! The patients suddenly awoke,
and sitting up looked at these men dressed like
women, and these women dressed like men, and asked
themselves whether perchance they were not the vic-
tims of a nightmare.

In nearly all the hospitals, scenes like the above are
of daily occurrence. On the 13th of November, 1884,
the following took place in the hospital of Meaux, at
the death of a poor woman seventy-four years old,
whose leanness put the attendants in high spirits :

The nurses were preparing to remove the body,
when their curiosity urged them to take a look at the
skeleton. They stripped it of its clothing, despite the
protestations of the patients, and a stout female nurse
served as an object to compare it with for the amuse-
ment of the hilarious nurses.

Instead of covering the poor woman with decency,
as the sisters were wont to do, and burying her, the
paid nurses dragged her by the feet through the wards
of the hospital. The impression made upon the pa-
tients may more easily be imagined than described.
Attracted by the noise, the head physician rushed in
and imposed silence upon the patients !

In a few years, owing to the influence of the material-
ism spread by the Jews, the respect for the dead, once
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disappear. A Frenchman used always reverently to
raise his hat when passing a funeral, as if saluting the
dead. Kecently, at the hospital St. Denis, the dead
body of a child was allowed to remain for four days
by the side of its mother.

The sisters have protested against their expulsion
from the hospitals. They redoubled their heroism
and devotion at the time of cholera. True, they were
driven away, but they were recalled when it was found
necessary to fight death, and they returned saying, as
is their custom, "Let Thy will be done/5

From the beginning to the end of this book, what has
the reader seen ? Nothing but the hatred of the Jew
for the Gentile. In this respect nothing has changed
for the last eighteen hundred years. It is the same lie,
the same hatred, the same people. Let the reader con-
sider the havoc that the Jew has wrought in France,
and let him ask himself if he is willing to have the
Jew accomplish the same in America. It is the duty
of all, irrespective of faith or nationality, of all who
live in America, of all who have the good of America
at heart, to combine and to resist Jewish encroachment.
Let stringent laws be passed, forbidding Jews to enter
the country. Let all her voters, irrespective of party,
be imbued with one thought : Not to permit a candi-
date known to have one drop of Jewish blood in his
veins to be nominated, much less to be elected to any
political office, even the lowest. Nothing could be
more absurd than the opinion one sometimes hears ex-
pressed, that the Jews among us are peacefully dis-
posed ; that when they quit Europe for America, they

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leave their prejudices behind, and try to adopt our
American „ ideas. The Jew never rids himself of his
venom. A serpent is a serpent, whether in the old
world or in the new.

We have in this book pictured the Jew as he is,
has been, and alwavs will be.

Who the prominent Jews in America are, what they
have tried to do, what they have succeeded in doing,
and what they may yet do, will be told, together with
their antecedents, one and all, in a fearless way, in a
forthcoming book entitled, The American Jew.

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